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MESSRS. 0, THOMAS AND R. C, WROUGHTON ON [ Mar. 16, 
. 1607, 1608, 1609, 1772; 1773, 1774, 1784, 1789, Pangan- 
sae Dirk de Vries ee i 
“¢ Karlong’ (of natives). 
“Very plentiful except at high altitudes, especially where they 
have formed colonies, Flight slow and flapping, occasionally 
soaring like a bird. They seem to see fairly well by day, and 
when ‘fyi ing will dip like a crow to avoid a bullet. In the 
neighbourhood of their colonies there are generally a few flying 
around all day, while those on the trees are continually altering 
their positions and quarrelling among themselves, the peculiar 
screaming that they make being audible for ‘a considerable 
distance. When disturbed they soon take to flight, circling round 
the trees like rooks, getting gradually up out of gunshot, 
although eventually returning to the same place. Many 
thousands generally collect in one colony, and the trees that they 
have chosen (which are generally high ones) present a very 
peculiar appearance, being almost entirely stripped of leaves, 
while the bats hang in full view in thousands from all the upper 
branches. ’—G. C. s. 
. Rovserrus SHORTRIDGEI, 
Thos. & W vought. Abstr. P. Z.8 SIRS ESAs 
¢. 1905. Kalipoetjang, Tji-Tandoei R., 8. Java. 5 March, 
1908. B.M. No. 9.1.5.67. — Z'ype. 
Most closely allied to the continental 2. leschenaulti Desm. *, 
with which it agrees in having the posterior lower molar elongate 
instead of subcircular, as it is In amplexicaudatus Geoff. Size, 
however, much greater, the skull especially being markedly 
larger and heavier, and its crests more strongly’ developed. 
Teeth throughout larger and broader, the anterior lower premolar 
conspicuously larger than in the allied species. 
Fur brown above, the hairs with lighter bases; hinder neck 
nearly naked, paler; a paler patch over the base of the’ tail. 
Below, the hairs are everywhere brown with lighter tips. 
Dimensions of the type, the starred measurements taken in 
the flesh :— 
Forearm 94 mm. 
*Head and body 145; .*tail 17; *ear 22; third finger, 
metacarpal 60, first phalanx 39, second phalanx 51; lower 
leg and hind foot (ce. u.) 66. 
“Skull: aber length 42, zygomatic breadth 26-2, interorbital 
breadth 8-9; supraor pital NRRL to tip of nasals 20:5 ; breadth 
of ae 16:5; palate, breadth outside m* 13; palation to 
incisive foramina 20:2; front of canine to back of m* 16:1, 
length of m, 2. 
Type as above. 
This fine Rouset is the largest of the Oriental species, its 
forearm exceeding those of ZR. ‘leschenaulti_ and. amplexicautatus 
+ Cf. K. Andersen, Ann. Mag. N. H. (7) xix. pp. 501 et segq., 1907, 
