106 MR. K. ANDERSEN ON BATS [May 16, 
specimen is slightly smaller than the smallest example of hima- 
layanus I have seen, the tibia is fully as long as (if anything, a 
trifle longer) than in the very largest of these latter. On the 
whole, I have but very little doubt that Ah. a. typicus will prove 
to be much more closely related to the Burmese and Himalayan 
forms than to any of the others. This would be an additional 
evidence of the closer connection between the fauna of Java and 
that of Indo-China and the Himalayas—closer than between Java 
and the geographically nearer Sumatra, Malacca, and Borneo. 
Distribution. Java. 
13g. RHINOLOPHUS AFFINIS PRINCEPS, subsp. n. (Plate III. 
fig. 13.) 
Diagnosis. External characters: General size moderate; tail 
short; but largest in the size of the horse-shoe and ears, and 
the length of the tibia. Skull, nasal swellings, tooth-rows: the 
extreme. 
Type. 3 ad. (in alcohol). Lombok, July 1896. Collected by 
A. Everett, Esq. Brit. Mus. no. 97.4.18.13. 
Remarks. Placed side by side with Rh. a. himalayanus, this form 
is strikingly different; the horse-shoe is no less than } broader 
than the broadest in himalayanus, and the skull is distinguishable 
at a glance by its excessive width and the very broad nasal 
swellings. But it must be remembered that sawperans leads, not 
up to, but decidedly in the direction of, princeps, and we do not 
yet know the extreme limits of individual variation, either in 
superans or In princeps. 
When considering the geographical races * of 22h. affiiis from a 
more general point of view—and excluding “ typicus,” owing to the 
peculiar geological history of Java, as well as nesites, owing to its 
having, probably, been influenced by somewhat exceptional con- 
ditions, far away on the small isolated N. Natunas,—the following 
rule will be observed: the more southern or south-eastern the 
habitat, the longer the ears, the broader the horse-shoe, the longer 
the tibia, the larger the skull, the broader the nasal swellings, 
and the longer the tooth-rows. 
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14. RetNoLopHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM Schreb. (Plate IV. figs. 
14, 15.) 
Diagnosis. Sella pandurate. p* completely external or wanting. 
Hars more than 20 mm. Width of horse-shoe less than 10 mm. 
Forearm 52°8-65 mm.?f 
Details. The ferrwm-equinum type originated from a Bat in all 
* T am unacquainted with Dobson’s Rh. andamanensis (J. A.S. B. xli. pt. ii. 
(1872) p. 337). The only specimen known is in the Calcutta Museum. It seems to 
be a local representative of the affinis type. 
+ The first and second characters, combined, are sufficient to distinguish fermein- 
equinum from all Oriental species of this group. The others are added to prevent 
confusion with those Ethiopian species of the present group which also have the 
sella pandurate and p? external or wanting (clivosus, darlingi, acrotis; augur and 
deckent). 
