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Technical name. The type of Rh. affinis is in the British 
Museum. From the original description it would have been 
quite impossible to identify the species. 
Remarks. Of all the races of Rh. affinis, the Himalayan form 
(Rh. «a. himalayanus) is the most ordinary-looking: in_ the 
horse-shoe, the ears, the nasal swellings, the brain-case. There 
can hardly be any doubt that the affinis type originated in the 
Himalayas, and from there spread eastwards to 8. China, south- 
eastwards through Indo-China, as far as Lombok. 
Geographical races. There are, at least, seven forms of Rh. affinis, 
differing in certain cranial characters, in the size of the ears and 
horse-shoe, in the length of the tail and tibia, in general size, and 
in geographical habitat. Some of these forms may be called 
distinct species by other authors. 
13@. RHINOLOPHUS AFFINIS HIMALAYANUS, subsp. n. (Plate IIT. 
fe. Ue, b.) 
Rhinolophus affinis (pavtim) Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. 
(1878) p. 112. 
Diagnosis *, External characters :—Size largest ; ears small ; 
horse-shoe narrow; tail short ; lower leg short. Cranial: length 
of skull, width of brain-case, length of tooth-rows, moderate ; 
nasal swellings narrow. 
Type. Q ad. (in alcohol). Masuri. Collected and presented 
by Capt. Hutton. Brit. Mus. no. 79.11.21.148. 
Distribution. Himalayas (Masuri, Nepal, Darjeeling) ; 8. China 
(Nanking). 
13 6. RHINOLOPHUS AFFINIS TENER, Subsp.n. (Plate ITT. fig. 12.) 
Diagnosis. External characters: Size small; ears small, 
horse-shoe broader; tail short; lower leg rather long. Cranial : 
skull short; nasal swellings and brain-case narrow; tooth-rows 
short. 
Type. 3 ad. (in aleohol). Pegu. Collected and presented by 
W. Theobald, Esq. Brit. Mus. no. 87.5.4.11. 
13c. RHTNOLOPHUS AFFINIS MACRURUS, subsp. n. 
Rhinolophus afinis Thomas, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (4) 3, 
(1892) p. 922. 
Diagnosis. External characters: Size moderate; ears larger ; 
horse-shoe broader; tail long; lowerleg longer. Cranial: length 
of skull, width of brain-case, length of tooth-rows, moderate ; 
width of nasal swellings moderate. 
Type. gad. (inalcohol). Taho, Karennee, Burma; Febr. 1888. 
Collected by Signor Leonardo Fea. Presented by Marquis G. 
Doria. Brit. Mus. no. 90.4.4.7. 
% As the characters of the different forms of Rh. affinis are sufficiently clearly 
expressed in the table of measurements, p. 105, they will not be reviewed im detail, 
but only rendered in general terms, in the “ diagnoses” of the subspecies. 
