252 Mr. K. Anlcrseii on the Bats 



here under eonsirleration. II' by furtlier examiiiatiou Java 

 specimens should prove to differ from the Borneo-Malacca 

 form, the former will have to stand as Rh. luctus, the latter 

 as Rh. morio, Gray. 



Gray's Rh. morio ■^. — The type (adult, Singapore ; sent 

 to Gray m alcohol, subsequently mounted) is in the British 

 Museum. The light colour, approaching that of Rh. tri- 

 foJiatus (and which caused Gray to give it a new name), is 

 probably due to fading in alcohol ; the colour of all the 

 species of the present group seems to be unusually liable to 

 fading ; in every other respect Rh. morio is indistinguishable 

 from Selangor and Borneo specimens. 



Alleged occurrence on the Philippine Islands. — Eydoux 

 and Gervais^s '' Rh. luctus, varietas rufa," from Manila, is 

 characterized by the authors as follows : — " Dans la variete 

 que nous decrivons, quoique la feuille soit })arfaitement la 

 meme [as in Temaiinck^s Rh luclus], le pelage est geuerale- 

 ment roussatre'^ t- No furtlier description, no measurements, 

 no figure. By subsequent w^riters j, none of whom seem to 

 have seen the specimen, the name proposed by Eyd.ou\ and 

 Gervais has been referred as a synonym to " Rh. luctus." I 

 very much doubt that this is correct. Neither before 1839 

 iior since has any bat of the luotiis type been record 'd from 

 any of the Philippine Islands. Considering the time at 

 which Eydoux and Gervais wrote, 1 should find it very 

 hazardous to lay much stress on the statement that the iiose- 

 leaves were " parfaitement '^ as in luctus. Of much more 

 importance is, I think, the fact that in 1839 Rft. philippin- 

 ensis was not yet described. Perhnps '' Rh. luctus, var. rufa" 

 is nothing but Rh. philippiuensis ; and, if so, the name 

 "riifus" (1839) unfortunately antedates " philippi7iensis" 

 (1843). An examination of the type (presumably in the 

 Paris ]Museum) would decide the matter. 



6. Rhinoluphus perniger, Hodgs. 



Diagnosis. — Allied to Rh. luctus, but much larger. Fore- 

 arm 71 "5-78 mm. 



Skull. — Quite of the luctus shape, but considerably larger 

 and with markedly broader nasal swellings. 



* J. E. Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) x. (Dec. 1842) p. 257. 



t Evdoux and Gervais, ' Voyage aiitour du monde ... la Favorite,' 

 T. pt. il (1839) p. 9. 



X In liis "Kritische Durclisicht der Ordnung der Flatterthiere " (SB. 

 Akad. Wien, Bd. Ixi. Abth. i., Feb. 1870, p. 194) Dr. Fitziuger, without 

 having seen the example here under consideration, gives it a new name — 

 Aqvias EudoiLiii — on account of " die durch;iu^ verschiedene Ileiniath, 

 so wie auch der grosse Unterscliied in der Farbunp:." 



