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although agreeing in general with Cabrera's (1909) careful 

 description, differs in the proportionally longer fingers and in 

 having the metacarpals practically equal instead of graduated 

 in length. Its relationship to the former is perhaps best 

 expressed by a trinomial. 



Hipposideros bicolor (Temminckj. — A single specimen from 

 Palawan, whence the species has already been reported b\ 

 Elera (see Hollister, 191 2, p. 15). 



Hipposideros diadeiiia (jriseus (Meyenj. — The type locality 

 of this race is Luzon, and Andersen records it from Mindanao, 

 and the smaller islands, Leyte, Guimaras, and Catanduanes. 

 The present collection contains two from Puerto Prusse, Pala- 

 wan, apparently the first reported from this island. 



Myotis nifo-pictus (Waterhouse). — The large Philippine 

 Myotis allied to M. fonnosus Hodgson is apparently distinct 

 from the continental species, and I am applying Waterhouse's 

 name to it. The single specimen in the collection from Pala- 

 wan and Elera's record of "fonnosus" from Luzon seem to 

 be the only definite localities hitherto recorded for it in these 

 islands. 



The bats of this type are strikingly colored, and in their 

 golden-rufous pelage and the bright orange areas along the 

 bones of the wing, contrasting with the otherwise blackish 

 membranes, they somewhat resemble a large edition of Keri^ 

 voula picta. Hodgson's type-specimen of Vespertillo formosus 

 came from Central Nipal, and was later placed in the British 

 Museum, where in 1858 it was examined by Tomes and com- 

 pared with two other specimens from China. The latter Tomes 

 believed to differ slightly in the form of the ears and in pos- 

 sessing much brighter colors, so that he proposed in a pro- 

 visional way the name Vespcrtilio rufo-niger for the Chinese 

 animal, mentioning particularly a specimen in the British 



