. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the ... Museum. 516 EPOMornoEUs. Dentition (fig. 36). .1^âtjL^'â = 28*. Characters of teeth as in Epomojys, but i^ never deciduous. Palate-ridges (fig. 37),âSix thick prominent ridges across inter- dental and postdental palate, and two or three thin and serrate ridges close together at extreme posterior edge (very inconspicuous and easily overlooked). Four anterior ridges undivided (second to fourth often notched at middle), fifth and sixth distinctly separated at middle. The arrangement of the postdental and posterior iuter- ental ridges is o
. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the ... Museum. 516 EPOMornoEUs. Dentition (fig. 36). .1^âtjL^'â = 28*. Characters of teeth as in Epomojys, but i^ never deciduous. Palate-ridges (fig. 37),âSix thick prominent ridges across inter- dental and postdental palate, and two or three thin and serrate ridges close together at extreme posterior edge (very inconspicuous and easily overlooked). Four anterior ridges undivided (second to fourth often notched at middle), fifth and sixth distinctly separated at middle. The arrangement of the postdental and posterior iuter- ental ridges is of primary taxonomic importance, no specimen ot. Pig, 37. Palate-ridges. A, Epomophonis w. waJdUrgi (cJ, ); B, E. angolensis (cT, , type of species); C, E. minor ( J, , type of species); D, E. gambianus ((S, ). All figures {. Epomo)^hori(S ought to he named without an examination of the soft palate. Fig. A shows the arrangement of the ridges characteristic of E. wahlbergi only, fig. B that of E. angolensis and pousarguesi, fio-s. C and D the type of palate-ridges found with hut little specific variation in E. lahiatus, minor, cryijtiirus, atiuriis, and gambianus. For details see Synopsis, p. 520, and descriptions of species. * The following dental anomalies have been observed in a series of much more than 150 skulls representing all forms known:âA " p^ " present on both sides, closely wedged in between p, and pg, small, about equal iu cross-section nnd height to a lower incisor, and similar in general shape and structure to Pj of a RmseUus and Pteropus (E. gambiamis ^ ) ; a " p^ " present on left side, situated about midway between pi and pj, in bulk subequal to \ of teeth comparatively recently lost in this group of bats (compare Plerotes, in which p^ and m are present).â An initial stage of a spliltingof the outer ridge of nij, or both m and m\ into two cusps, is seen in a few individuals (E. gambiamis T
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