702 CAPT. T. HUTTON ON HIMALAYAN BATS. [ June 4, 



evening hours are usually abundant among the trees. The teeth are 

 strong, and the tout -ensemble of its aspect is not unlike that of a 

 Bulldog. 



A. female taken from a cave in August measured : — carpus 3f in. ; 

 tibia 1-ff in. ; ear 1^ in. ; nose to tail 5y^ in. ; tail 2] in. ; ex- 

 panse 20 in. Foot in both the membranes to the ankle ; tip of tail 

 exserted ; membranes intensely black ; longest finger 5 in. ; fur a 

 soft brown, with ashy tips. 



Mr. Blyth tells us that this species is very closely allied to, if not 

 identical with, Hipposideros nobilis of Horsfield. I doubt its identity 

 with the Javan species. The colours he gives as " uniform light 

 brown, with dark maroon tips to the fur of the upper parts. Length 

 of forearm (of a large specimen) 3f in., and of tibia \\ in." This, 

 however, is not a large specimen, but one of ordinary size. 



11. PHYLLORHINA BICOLOR. 



Rh. bicolor, Temm. Monogr. ii. p. 18, t. 32, f. 9, 10. 



In a recent specimen the colour was uniform mouse-brown on the 

 back, pale ashy beneath; membranes dusky ; carpus If in. ; tibia 

 J-L in. ; ear 1 in. ; transverse breadth f in. ; nose to tail 2*- in. ; 

 tail l^iu. ; total length 'i\ in. ; antehelix small. The facial crest 

 consists of the horseshoe-shaped membrane on the muzzle, in the 

 area of which are the nostrils in the form of a short longitudinal slit, 

 and divided from each other by a slightly raised ridge. Behind the 

 horse-shoe rises a thick transverse membrane, divided into three 

 lobes or knobs ; and again immediately behind this is another raised 

 tranverse canopy-like membrane, the anterior edge of which bends 

 slightly forward. This is divided into four small chambers by three 

 narrow septa. The whole is quadrate, and occupies the entire space 

 between the eyes and the end of the muzzle. 



My specimens were captured at an elevation of 5500 feet ; but the 

 species, although occurring both on the hills and in the Dehra Doon, 

 does not appear to be at all common. The ears are closely and finely 

 ribbed transversely with a fringe of fine cilia along the inner border 

 of the anterior margin ; semiemarginate near the summit on the 

 external border, from which to the base it is strongly curved out- 

 wards. Feet free to the ankles ; tip of tail in the membrane, and 

 not exserted. 



Mr. Blyth has mentioned having received from the Dehra Doon a 

 small species, which he doubtfully refers to Hipposideros speoris, 

 although at the same time he admits the possibility of its proving dis- 

 tinct. The dimensions given by him, however, of H. speoris far exceed 

 those of either of my smaller species, and prove it to be distinct from 

 both — besides that in mine there are no lateral fringes below the eye 

 on the muzzle, which at once decides the question." Mr. Blyth says of 

 H. speoris : — " Colour nearly as in H. armiger ; length of carpus 

 2 in. ; tibia I in." Mr. Walter Elliot, of Madras, says : — " Carpus 

 2 in. ; tibia -fc in.; ear -^ in. ; expanse 12^ to 13 in. ; nose to 

 tail 2 T 3 in. or female 2 T 2 jj in. ; tail 1 in. ; total length 3 T : L in." 



In this, then, the carpus is nearly half an inch longer ; and it has 



