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1824. lihinolophus affinis , Horsfleld, Zool. Res. Java, pi. | 1 |, lii,'s. A., B. 

 1905. Rhinolox)hiis afpnis, Horsf. , iypicua, Kniid Anderson, P. Z. S. 19U5 

 II. pp. 104-6. 



2 cT ad. (ale, skulls). .Java (E. Yerreaux). Museo Civico, (ionoa 

 (C. A. 58. c, d). 



In tli(^ {)aper reten'ed to aljuve. owiii^^ to sccircity of iiiatcrial, I 

 was linai )1(' to express any definite o])inioii as to tlie tru(^ cliarae- 

 ters and atiinities of the Java representative of Rh. affinii^. TIh^ 

 i\vo well jireserved specimens placed at my disposal l)y the (reiioa 

 Miisenni prove that Rli. affinis affinis is. in certain respects, in- 

 tiM-niediate between Rh. a. siqoerans. from the Malay Peninsula 

 and Sumatra, and Rh. a. princeps from Lomhok : in all the 

 characters of the skull it is jiractically indistin^^uisliahle from Rh. 

 a. superam, hut it a})j)roach( s Rh. a. prince'ps in the width of 

 the horse-shoe and ears. Thus its characters and atiinities are 

 idosely in accordance with its «i'eographical habitat: passing- from 

 tiie Malay Peninsuhi and Sumatra (superans) to .lava {afjlnh) 

 and Lomhok {princeps) tliere is, in this s})ecies, a ,t;-radual increas(- 

 in the size of the ears, the width of lh(> horse-shoe, the size of llit^ 

 skull, and wddth of the nasal swelling's; facts which seem to 

 stren}i:then tlie opinion I have e.\.})re.ssi: d elsewhere (1. s. (•. p. 103), 

 that the Rli. affini s type oriji'inated on tlie continent (v(n'y likely 

 in the re,u-ion of ihe Himalayas, the characteristic form of which. 

 Rli. a. Jtiiualaijanus, is in every respect the most ordinary-looking-. 



