RHINOLOPHUS LARVATUS. 



Caput oblongum, magnum, rostro obtuso terminatum. Nasus prosthemate maximo, 

 membranaceo, complicato, figura variis speciebus diversissima ; nares circulares 

 seu ovales, infundibuliformes, plica membranee interioris cinct^. Labra dilatata; 

 fibris muscularibus in omnem faciem distributis. AuriculcB maximse, acuminata, 

 erectte vel patentes, absque operculo, basi simplices vel involutse, nonnunquam 

 profunde emarginatse, lobulo accessorio instructse. Oculi mediocres, membrana 

 prosthematis superiore subapproximati. 



Corpus patagio digitali, lumbari et anali, membranaceis denudatis cinctum. Pata- 

 gium anale integrum. Cauda medioeris, patagio anali innata et ad ejus mar- 

 ginem pertingens. Mammce apertse duse pectorales laetiferae; papillse etiam 

 duee, absque glandulis lactiferis in pubis regione dispositee, approximate ; (pelvi 

 tendentes.) 



Pedes pentadactyli. Antipedes chiropteri, halluce distincto, unguiculato, digitis 

 reliquis elongatis, inermibus; indice phalange minimo aut nuUo. Scelides 

 ambulatorise. Ungues falculares, digitorum elongatorum antipedis nulli. 



Affinitas. — Hoc genus indice minuto cartilagineo phalange unico instructo cum 

 secunda tribu Vespertilionum insectivororum omnino convenit, ac nasi prosthe- 

 matis structura complicata generi Megadermati proximam affinitatem prsebet : 

 tamen auriculae simplices operculo destitutae et verrucas elongatse in pubis 

 regione dispositse, quae adspectu mammis similes sunt, Rhinolophum ab aliis 

 hujus famUias generibus longe dissociunt. 



** Membrana superiore prosthematis transversa porrecta. 



Rhinolophus supra ex fusco fulvescens postice saturatior subtus fulvus nitore canes- 



cente, cauda pedibus breviore, auriculis magnis acutis erectis approximatis basi 



latissimis simplicibus. 

 Lowo-sumbo, of the Javanese. 



To the description of the subject which has been selected for the present 

 article, I have proposed to premise a few general observations on the genus, and to 

 exhibit, in a connected view, the species which have been discovered in the Island 



