^Iv. E. Blyth's Notices of various Mammalia. 463 



smaller size correspoiuls with the original clcscrij)tioii of Vesp. 

 speoris from India, the colour of which is howcM-r stated to be 

 ■ " pale yellowish ash-brown^' (apud Shaw), which docs not apply 

 well to either, though better to that of India : and I have little 

 doubt that Col. Sykes's species is the true speoris, to which 

 dukhuinnais would therefore be referred as a synonym, as like- 

 wise the subsequent names apicitlalus, Gray, for the male, and 

 penicillatus, Gray, for the female. 



Mr. Hodgson, in the Society's Journal for 1835, next de- 

 scribed a lilt, armiger and Bh. tragatus from Nepal; but the 

 former of these a])])ears to be identical with the Javanese Rh. 

 nubilis of Horstield. The same naturalist more recently ob- 

 tained three other species from that province, and has described 

 one of them by the name pernigcr, in Journ. As. Soc. xii. 414; 

 but I suspect that this is identical with Bit. tuctiis of Temminck. 



We now con\e to Mr. Gray's " Kevision of the genera of 

 Bats, and descriptions of some new genera and species,^^ pub- 

 lished in the ' Magazine of Zoology and Botany/ No. 12. In 

 this ])aper the Bh. vulgaris, llorsf., is mentioned as inhabiting 

 India; and besides the Bh. apiculatus and Bh. penicillatus, Gray, 

 both of which I have referred to speoris verus v. dukhnnensis of 

 Sykes, two other species from India are described as new, from 

 specimens procm-ed by Walter Elliot, Esq., Madras C. S. ; and 

 these are also given in the latter gentleman's valuable " Cata- 

 logue of the Mammalia of the Southern Mahratta Countiy," 

 published in the ' Madi-as Jomnal of Literature and Science,' 

 No. 24. pp. 98-99, one of them however by a different and 

 more appropriate name. 



Such a})pears to be the amount of information hitherto pub- 

 lished relative to the Indian Bhinolophi, which I shall now pro- 

 ceed to reduce and classify, and enrich by the addition of several 

 new species. 



The various Indian and Malayan members of this group fall 

 into two marked divisions, corresponding to Bhinolophus, Gray, 

 as restricted, (the Xoctilio, apud Bechstein, according to Mr. 

 Gray,) and the Hipposidei-os, Gray, v. Phyllorhina, Bonap., a]md 

 Gray. 



The former is exemplified by the three European species, and 

 by the Javanese Bh. ajfinis and Bh. minor, Horsf., in addition 

 to which only two species are indicated by Mr. Gray, the Bh. 

 megaphi/llus, Gray (B. Z. S. 1834, p. 52), from Australia, and 

 Bh. griseus, Meyer, habitat not ascertained. In this group, the 

 facial crests are more prominently developed, and terminate in 

 an angular peak above, within and anterior to which is a second 

 leaf of membrane, in general also peaked, and attached behind 

 by a vertical {i. e. longitudinally disposed) connecting membrane, 



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