On Heterocera from the Transvaal. 359 Gephalophus rujilatus. S ? , Gambaga, March 1899. " Not uncommon; very sol itaiy in its habits; never seen more than 100 yards from water." The adult horns of this little Duiker were until quite lately unknown : the male specimen may be considered an unusually large one ; it is an old animal, and the horns, although much worn down at the tips, are very much longer than any other known head. This specimen was exhibited before the Zoological Society, and is figured in part iii. of its ' Proceedings ' for this year, p. 772. Ourehia nigricaudata. $ , Gambaga. Common about Gambaga, but not observed far to the south of that place. Hippotragus equinus gambianus. S (J, Tumu, Gurunsi, 9 miles south of 11° N. These Roan Antelopes were obtained by Lieut.-Col. H. P. Northcott, who has presented them to the British Museum, where one of the heads has been mounted. The general colour of the younger specimen is much redder than any specimens which I have seen from other parts of Africa, this bright colour reaching down to the feet. The older specimen is very pale and tawny in colour and lacks the bluish grizzling which is generally seen in the South-African form. Col. Giffard writes as follows : — " Roan I saw in Dagomba, some 40 miles S. of Gambaga, also at Gambaga in March, when I shot two ; also in uninhabited country about 50 miles from Yabum towards Kumassi." XXXIX. — Some apparently midescrtbed Species of Heterocera from the Transvaal. By W. L. DISTANT. The Moths here described will be all figured in my ' Insecta Transvaaliensia,' and they refer to species recently received from that often beautiful, always interesting, but now most unhappy country.
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