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Show 1897.] PROM NYASALAND. 927 1. CERCOPITHECUS ALBIGULARIS MOLONEYI, Scl. a, b. Giant Forest on top of Masuku Plateau, 7/97. c, d. 2 foetus in spirit. Ditto. e-g. No exact localities. 2. COLOBUS PALLIATUS, Pet. a-c. Skins. No exact localities. 2 a. COLOBUS, sp. inc. a, b. 2 young skins, bought from natives. " From the mountain-ranges east of Fyfe Station." 3. PAPIO PRUINOSUS, Thos. (?). a. cS. Fort Johnston. Shot and presented by Mr. H. C. McDonald. b, c. cf • Skin, and a separate skull, Zomba, 11/96. These two specimens are coloured more like the ordinary E. African P. thoth, and I am not certain of their identity with the peculiar hoary-coloured P. prulnosus, although, on account of locality, they may be provisionally referred to that species. I am informed by Dr. Bendall that the type specimen of P. prrulnosus did not come from Fort Johnston itself, but from Lesumbwe, Monkey Bay, ou the Livingstone Peninsula, Lake Nyasa. 4. OTOGALE KIRKI, Gray. a, b. Young, Zomba, 11-12 Feb., 1897. 5. XANTHARPYIA STRAMINEA, Geoffr. a-cl. Mt. Malosa, 21-29 Nov., 1896. 6. BHINOLOPHUS CAPENSIS, Licht. a. <$ . Fort Hill, July 1896. 7. NYCTERIS CAPENSIS, Geoffr. a. In spirit. Buarwe, W . coast Lake Nyasa. 8. PIPISTRELLUS, sp. (? P. huhll, Natt.). a-c. In spirit. N. Nyasa. " Label lost: either Nyika or Masuku." I do not venture definitely to say that these Bats are P. huhli, which is a native of the southern Palaearctic Begion, and has never hitherto been found south of Abyssinia, but I can find no definite character on which to separate them. They even have the characteristic white edging to the wing-membrane so constantly found in the northern form. 9. MYOTIS 1 BOCAGEI, Beters. a-cl. Four in spirit. Kondowe, near Karonga, N. Nyasa. I am unable to distinguish these specimens from Peters's Vespertilio bocagei, originally described from Angola. 1 Vespertilio auctorum, nee Linn. See Miher, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xx. p. 379 (1897). |