1905.] OF THE GENUS RHINOLOPHUS. 1Q3 



Technicctl name. The type of Rh, afflnis is in the British 

 Museum. Fi-om the original desciiption it Avould have been 

 quite imi^ossible to identify the species. 



Remarks. Of all the races of Rh. affinis, the Himalayan form 

 (^Rh. a. himalayanus) is the most ordinaiy-looking : in the 

 horse-shoe, the ears, the nasal swellings, the bi-ain-case. There 

 can hardly be any doubt that the affinis type originated in the 

 Himalayas^ and from thei'e spread eastwards to S. China, south- 

 eastwards through Indo-China, as far as Lombok. 



Geoyraphical races. There are, at least, seven forms of Rh. affinis, 

 difiei'ing 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. 



\'.\a. RnixoLOPHUs affinis himalayanus, subsp. n. (Plate III, 

 fig. 11 a, h.) 



Rhinolojihus affinis (partim) 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. 2 ^f^- (ii^ alcohol). Masuri. Collected and presented 

 by Capt. Hutton. Brit. Mus. no. 79.11.21.148. 



Distribution. Himalayas (Masuin, IsTepal, Darjeeling) ; S. China 

 (jSTanking). 



13 h. Rhinolophus affinis tenee, subsp. n. (Plate III. fig. 12.) 



Diagnosis. External characters : Size small ; ears small ; 

 horse-shoe broader ; tail shoi't ; lower leg rather long. Cranial : 

 skull short ; nasal swellings and brain-case narrow ; tooth-rows 

 short. 



Type. S ^tl- (ill alcohol). Pegu. Collected and presented by 

 W. Theobald, Esq. Brit. Mus. no. 87.3.4.11. 



13 c. Rhinolophus affinis macrurus, subsp. n. 



Rhinolop)hus affinis Thomas, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) x. 

 (1892) p. 922. 



Diagnosis. Extei'iial characters : Size moderate ; ears largei- ; 

 hoi'se-shoe broader ; tail long; lower leg longer. Cranial: length 

 of skull, width of brain-case, length of tooth-rows, moderate ; 

 widtli of nasal swellings moderate. 



Type, d" ad, (in alcohol). 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 sutBciently clearly 

 expressed in the table of measurements, p. 105, they will not be reviewed in detail, 

 but only rendered in general terms, in the " diagnoses " of the subspecies. 



