CATALOGUE 
OF THE 
MAMMALS AND BIRDS 
OF 
NEW GUINEA. 
MAMMALIA. 
Fam. VESPERTILIONID. 
HiprosipDERos. 
As M. Bonaparte has given the name of Phyllorhina to the Euro- 
pean Horse-shoe Bats, the genus Hipposideros may be confined to 
those species of the larger genus which have a large cavity opening 
with an expanding pore on the forehead behind the transverse hinder 
part of the nose-leaf (they have distinct pubal teats), thus restrict- 
ing Phyllorhina to those which have a simple forehead without any 
pore. 
HipposipDEROS ARUENSIS. 
Hipposideros Aruensis, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 
Sooty-brown; the lower half of the hairs of the back paler, the 
hairs of the under side more uniform, or with rather paler tips ; the 
ears large, broad, rounded at the ends, with two hairy lines on the 
inner side of the front edge ; face and chin rather bristly, without 
any membranaceous ridges on the sides outside of the nose-leaf. 
Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace). 
a. Male. Aru Island. 
Length of head and body 2"; tail 2; expanse of wings 51; 
length of upper arm bone 13; length of shin bone 2 inch. 
The ears sooty-black ; the front margin of the ears is broad, with 
a rounded lobe on the basal part near the forehead ; wings broad, 
B 
