52 MamMALiA OF INDIA. 
No. 59. HIPPOSIDEROS VULGARIS. Sy7.—PHYLLORHINA LARVATA. 
The Common Malayan Horse-shoe Bat. 
Hapirat.—Arracan and Malayana. 
DeEscrIPTION.—‘ It differs from the last in being rather smaller, and 
of a brown colour above, much paler at the base of the hairs and at their 
extreme tips, and lighter coloured below ; the ears more apiculated, or 
rather they appear so from being strongly emarginated externally towards 
the tip."— Biyzh. 
S1zE.—2,3; inches; tail 142; ; wing expanse about 12. 
No. 60. HIPPOSIDEROS BLYTHII. 
Hasirat.—Ceylon, Fort Frederic. 
DeEscriprion.—Above surface colour a rich dark tawny brown ; base 
of hairs much lighter coloured, of a brighter yellow tinge ; beneath paler ; 
face partially blackish ; ears black ; tip of tail excerted ; no frontal sac ; 
membranes blackish ; nasal processes as in HZ. speoris, 
S1zE.—Head and body, 2,2; inches; tail, 1; wing expanse, 12. 
Dr. Kellaart considered this a new and undescribed species, dis- 
tinguished from H/. sfeoris and A. vulgaris (vel Templetonii—Kellaart) by 
the greater length of the fore-arm, which is two inches. This remark 
however does not apply to zz/garis, of which Kellaart himself gives 
two inches as the length of the radius, and Blyth gives two and a quarter. 
The absence of the frontal sac would have been a greater proof, but both 
specimens on which Kellaart made his observations were females ; and 
as colouring is so varied in the bat tribe as to preclude the division of 
species on this ground, I think we may put this down as a doubtful 
species on which more information is desirable. 
No. 61. PHYLLORHINA DIADEMA. 
HasitatT.—India generally ; Ceylon and Burmah. 
DESCRIPTION.—The fur with three shades—buff, then reddish brown 
with ashy tips, underneath greyish or pale brown. ‘ The hinder erect 
nose-leaf,’ according to Dobson’s description, ‘“‘equals the horse-shoe 
and slightly exceeds the sella in width, its free margin forming a segment 
of the circumference of a circle, with a small blunt projection in the 
centre and three vertical ridges on its concave front surface ; sella large, 
with a prominent ridge in the centre, forming a small projection above 
and one smaller on each side; sides of the muzzle with prominent 
vertical leaves, three on each side ; no frontal pore.” 
There is a good fizure of the head of this bat in Cuvier’s ‘ Animal 
Kingdom,’ Carpenter’s and Westwood’s edition, under the name of 
dun ia- 
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