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race of the noctule bat, to which I have provisionally applied Hodgson's name. 

 "Vespertilio labiata" was very briefly described by Hodgson in the Journal of 

 the Asiatic society of Bengal, 1835, 4, p. 700, from the "central region of Nipal," 

 as "saturate brown throughout; skin wherever denuded purpurescent." "Teeth 

 2 6 2 J'J- g'gj snout to rump three inches; tail two." It is said to be "closely 

 affined to M. Geoffrey's noctula," with which Dobson, in 1878, considered it 

 synonymous. Jerdon, four years previously had done the same, and in his 

 "Mammals of India" gave its measurements as: length 4? to 5 inches; tail, 

 nearly 2; forearm, li = about 46 mm. Barret-Hamilton has recently de- 

 scribed under the name of P. montanus a noctule bat from Mussoree, north- 

 western Himalayas, to which Hodgson's name may be applicable although its 

 measurements seem a trifle less (forearm 42.5 mm.). Our two specimens from 

 Hupeh and Szechwan are very similar to P. noctula, but darker throughout, 

 nearly Prout's brown above and slightly paler below, the hairs practically uni- 

 color to their bases. The immature specimen from Ichang is slightly the darker 

 with a faint gloss to the upper surface. It is also albinistic in that the tips of 

 both ears are white. The" adult from Kweifu measures: forearm, 49 mm,; 

 thumb, 8; second metacarpal, 52.5; third metacarpal, 52.5; fourth metacarpal, 

 50.5; fifth metacarpal, 42. The forearm of the immature specimen measures 

 46 mm.; its skull is similar to that of P. noctula with the first upper premolar 

 very small (not fairly prominent as in P. leisleri) and hidden in the angle between 

 the canine and the upper second premolar. 



RHINOLOPHIDAE. 

 RHINOLOPHUS MINOR Horsfield. 



Four specimens from Kiating, Szechwan, taken November 29, 1908, agree 

 closely with the description and measurements given by Andersen in his review 

 of the species of this group (Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1905, 2, p. 126-128). 

 The forearm measurement is 38 mm. In all, pm 3 stands practically in the tooth 

 row. 



RHINOLOPHUS ROUXI SINICUS Andersen. 



This race was described from a single specimen taken at Chinta, Anhwei, 

 on the lower Yangtze. Mr. Zappey obtained two specimens of a Rhinolophus 

 belonging to the simplex group, at Ichanghsien, Hupeh, that undoubtedly repre- 

 sent the same race but are even smaller than the type, with forearms 43 and 44 



