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Show 716 DR. DOBSON ON CHIROPTERA FROM ZANZIBAR. [Dec. 2, either males or females. The usual white tuft at the base of the ears is distinct; and, in males, the long hairs lining the shoulder-pouches project conspicuously. The following Table exhibits the measurements of two adult specimens, a male and a female with foetus in utero; also, for comparison, the measurements of an adult male and female of E. macroce-phalus:- E. minor. E. macrocephalus. eye from tip of nostril.. third finger, metacarpal „ „ 1st ph. .. „ 2nd ph. .. fifth finger, metacarpal ,, „ 1st ph „ 2nd ph. .. ad. t$ 4*0 1*65 0*65 0*72 2*5 1-7 1-1 1*65 1*55 0*8 0*8 0*96 0*6 ad. 2 4-1 1*55 0*55 0*7 2*4 1*65 11 1*65 1-5 0*8 0*8 0*9 0*6 ad. S 6*3 2*6 1*2 0*9 3*5 2*5 '• 1*5 2*0 2*25' 1*0 ad. 2 5*0 2*3 1*0 0*9 3*3 - 5*7 - 4*3 1*1 J 1*3 0*85 1-25 0*85 2. E P O M O P H O R U S LABIATUS. Pteropus labiatus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 83, pi. 39. Epomophorus labiatus, Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus. p. 11. Two specimens in the collection are referable to this species, hitherto known only from dried and badly preserved skins. The type in the Leyden Museum consists of a skin of an immature male individual; but there is another skin in the same collection similarly labelled, which evidently belongs to a full-grown female of the same species, and with this the specimens from Zanzibar very closely agree in measurements, as may be seen from the table below. I have therefore referred them to E. labiatus, which, however, as I have already surmised1, may turn out to be (when a sufficient number of specimens are available for examination) a local variety only of E. gambianus. The palate-ridges closely resemble those of E. gambianus (see op. cit. pi. ii. fig. 3a) ; but the fifth ridge is marked by a slight groove only. Fur above yellowish brown, with ashy extremities; beneath much paler; on the interfemoral membrane and legs extending much less densely than in E. gambianus ; a very few hairs only appear on the backs "of the feet. In the females there are distinct, though rudimentary, shoulder-pouches. The following Table exhibits the measurements cf an adult female of this species with well-worn teeth, and of an adult female of 1 Op. cit. p. 12. |