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specimen of swinhaii/ but the remainder are intermediate in tone. 

 The hairs of the head and shoulders of jyintti almost entirely lack the 

 darker tips to the hairs such as occur over the remainder of the 

 body, thus rendering the specimens lighter anteriorly. This is so to 

 a considerably greater degree than in swlnhoil. The nasal details of 

 the spirit specimens are substantially as given by Thomas. They are 

 not, however, more pronounced in the single male alcoholic than in 

 the females, as might be inferred to be the case. 



HIPPOSIDEROS ARMIGER ARMIGER (Hodgson) 



Rhinolphiis) armiger Hodgson, Jouru. Asiastic Soc Bengal, vol. 4, 1835, p. 

 699 (central region of Nepal, India), 



Specimens. — Seven: from Kiating, 1, Suifu, 1, and Hwangtsaopa, 

 1, all in Szechwan ; and from Changshowkai, Hunan, 4. 



The specimen from Hwangtsaopa is as small as any swinhoii but 

 is identified on geographic grounds, 



HIPPOSIDEROS ARMIGER SWINHOII (Peters) 



Phyllorhina srcinhoii Peters, Proc, Zool. Soc, London, 1870, p. 616 (Amoy, 

 Fukien, China). 



Specitnens. — Twenty-three, including 9 in spirits, from Yen- 

 pingfu, Fukien, 



For comparison with pratti average measurements of 14 females 

 are given as follows: Length of head and body, 96.6; forearm, 93; 

 shank, 39; tail, 59; ear, 33.5; foot. 16.9; thumb, 9.9; length of skull, 

 31.8; palatal length, 5,4; pterygoid width, 3,5; and narial width, 

 5,1 mm, 



Andersen did not recognize the race swinhoii^ but with access ap- 

 parently to a larger series of skins G. M, Allen (1923) considered it 

 to be a valid form, based on brighter color, typifying the coastal rep- 

 resentative of the armiger group. The specimens before me do not 

 altogether bear out this statement. It is true that some of the Fukien 

 skins are much brighter than are four from Hunan, but definite di- 

 chromatism is indicated and six of the lot from the former province 

 are smoky gray, while four may be said to be intermediate, A dif- 

 ference is found in the ground color of the pelage, however, which is 

 paler and more buify in four Hunan skins than in any of those from 

 Fukien; and the former are appreciably larger, both in body and 

 skull. 



It may be mentioned that judging from the rather scanty repre- 

 sentation of bats of the H. diadema group in the national collection, 

 races of H. armiger appear to differ in having the border of the 

 bony palate definitely V instead of U shaped, and in having the bor- 

 ders of the basi sphenoid and basioccipital parallel. 



