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1871. Rhhiolophus truncatus, Peters, iNI. B. Akad. Berlin p. 307 (8 .June 1871). 



— Type loeality : Batchian. 

 1878. Rliinolophus megaphyllus (not 'iray), vai-, a, Dobson, Cat. VA\\v. 



Brit. Mas. p. 111. 

 1905. Rhinolophus truncatus Pet.. Knud Andersen, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 



II. pp. 80-81, 84, 120 (17 Oct. 1005). 



a. cf ad. (in ale). Ternate; 1875. Collected by A. A. Bruijn. Genoa Museum. 



Rli. truncatus was hitherto known from Batchian only. The 

 Ternate specimen recorded above is in every respect indistinguisii- 

 al)le from a series of Batchian examples in the British Museum; 

 also the peculiar coloration of the fur (see my paper, 1. s. c.) and 

 the dimensions are practically the same. 



All the specimens of Rh. truncatus I had hitherto seen were 

 dried skins, collected by A. R. Wallace in Batchian, and all the 

 skulls were more or less fragmentary; I therefore had to describe 

 the nose-leaves from resoftened specimens, to leave out all mea- 

 surements of the soft parts, and to give only a very incomplete 

 series of measurements of the skull. The Ternate specimen, which 

 is preserved in alcohol and in excellent condition, and the skull 

 of which is perfectly undamaged, enables me to fill up these 

 dc^ticiencies in my description of the species. 



As in all primitive eastern forms of the Rh. simplex grouj» 

 (of which Rli. truncatus is a member) , the sella is decidedly 

 broader at base (2.7 mm.) than at summit (1.8 mm.); length 

 (height) of sella, from angle between vertical portion and nasal 

 lobe to summit, A mm.; from the base to about one third of iis 

 height tlie lateral margins of the sella are subparallel; liere at this 

 point is a very shallow, i)ut distinct, constriction, and then the 

 margins are again subparallel (very slightly converging) to the 

 sunnnit; front face of sella covered with extremely short, whitish 

 liairs, only observable under a lens; summit completely s(|uare-cut 

 (« truncatus »). La*ncet rather long (4 mm., from posterior 

 transverse ])ridge), and almost quite cuneate. 



In the tal)le l)elow I give, for comparison with the measure- 

 ments of the Ternate specimen, those of the Batchian examples 

 in the British Museum. 



