466 Mr. E. Bl)i;Vs Notices of various Mammalia. 



whicli last is sometimes developed beyond the lesser transverse 

 leaf, in front of it^ and each undergoes considerable modification 

 in the various species : the nasal apertures appear linear, from 

 being partly overlapped by membrane, which lines and surrounds 

 the centre of the facial depression, between the latter and the 

 nostrils ; outside of the nostrils the face is bordered by a layer 

 of membrane sm'rouuding it in front in shape of a horse-shoe. 

 The ears in this group are large, ample, and apiculated, having 

 the point directed outward, and (as Mr. Hodgson remarks of the 

 Rhinolophi generally) are "tremblingly alive all over:" the 

 conch is continued round in front to form an anti-helix, which is 

 separated apart by an emargination, sometimes very deep, but 

 should not be confounded (as it occasionally has been) with the 

 tragus of various other bats. As many as six species inhabit 

 India, all of which (unless Rh. pusillus be among them) seem 

 different from those heretofore described. 



The first is remarkable for having a conspicuous transverse 

 leaflet with a septum behind and above it, situate upon the 

 larger or posterior peaked membrane, and considerably above 

 the lesser or anterior one ; but this is only a modification and 

 development of what is more or less observable in the others. The 

 posterior peak reaches to between the ears and even beyond. 



1. Rh. mitratus, nobis. — Length four inches, of which the 

 tail measures an inch and a half; of another specimen thi-ee 

 inches and one-eighth, the tail an inch and a quarter. Expanse 

 (of the former) probably twelve inches ; length of fore-arm re- 

 spectively two and a quarter, and two and one-eighth ; of longest 

 finger three and one-eighth, and three inches ; of tibia an inch ; 

 and tarse ynih claws half an inch. Eai's large and ample, mea- 

 sui'ing • an inch to point anteriorly ; the anti-helix moderately 

 developed, but separated apart by only a slight emargination. 

 Fur of the upper parts a rich light brown, paler at base, exces- 

 sively soft and delicate, and rather long ; of the under parts 

 shorter and much paler. Anterior nose-leaf subovate, or nearly 

 rounded, contracted at base, and a conspicuous lappet of mem- 

 brane is given off from each side of the centre of the facial de- 

 pression, overhanging the nostrils, and forming a roimd mesial 

 cup ; vertical membrane posterior to the lesser nose-leaf little 

 developed, and supporting its base only; the uppermost or 

 hindmost peak triangular and acute at tip, reaching beyond the 

 base of the ears between the two, and di\ided by a mesial septum, 

 but httle overlapped at the base by a second small transverse 

 lamina which occurs also in most of the other species, and is 

 placed beyond and above the vertical membrane which supports 

 the inner or anterior nose-leaf. This fine species was procured by 

 Capt. Tickell in the neighbourhood of Chyebassa, in Central India. 



