34 CATALOGUE. 



Sub-Genus HIPPOSIDEROS, Gray. 



ft Prosthematis membrana superiore transversa porrecta. 

 Facial crest surmounted by a transverse membrane. 



44. RHINOLOPHUS (HIPPOSIDEROS) DIADEM A ? 



Hipposideros diadema, Gray ? Cantor, Catalogue of Mam- 

 malia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 

 p.\\. 

 Rhinolophus diadema, Geoff roy? Ann. du Mus. XX. p. 263. 



A very perfect specimen of a large Rinolophe, from the Malayan 

 Peninsula has been presented to the Museum by Dr. Cantor, of which 

 he gives the following details in the catalogue above mentioned, p. 11. 



" The Malayan individuals are, according to age and sex, of a more 

 or less intense reddish or greyish brown above, under certain lights 

 assuming a golden lustre, owing to the whitish points of the hairs ; 

 beneath, they are of a lighter greyish-brown. In the adult male, the 

 livid flesh-coloured nasal appendage is larger, more complicated, and 

 somewhat different from the figure given by Geoffrey St. Hilaire 

 (Ann. du Museum, XX. pi. 5 and 6), which resembles the female in 

 the simpler appendage in the absence of the frontal pore. The latter 

 organ in the adult male is large, secreting a yellowish-brown oily 



fluid The size of the Malayan individuals appears to exceed 



those from Timor." The specimen sent by Dr. Cantor agrees gene- 

 rally with the R. diadema, described by M. Geoffroy, in colour, outline 

 of membrane, and form of the ears, but it is one-third larger, the body 

 and tail together measuring seven inches, and the flying membrane 

 twenty- two inches. The comparison of fresh specimens will probably 

 show that Dr. Cantor's species is entitled to a distinct rank ; this con- 

 jecture is confirmed by distance of its locality from R. diadema, which 

 hitherto has only been found in Timor. 



45. RHINOLOPHUS (HIPPOSIDEROS) NOBILIS, 



Horsf. Sp. 



Rhinolophus nobilis, Horsfield, Zool. Research., with a 

 Figure and an Illustration, pi. viii. Fig. L. the head. 



Rhinolophus nobilis (Rhinolophe fameux) Temm., Monogr. 

 II. p. 10. Figure of the animal, pi. xxviii. ; head, 

 pi. xxix.; skull, pi. xxxii. fig. 1, 2, 3. Milller, over 

 de Zoogd. von den Ind. Archip. p. 23. 



Hipposideros nobilis, Gray. Cantor, Catal. of Malayan 

 Mammalia, p. 12. 



