104 MR. K. ANDERSEN ON BATS [May 16, 



13 d RhINOLOPHUS APFINIS SUPERANS, Subsp. 11. 



Rhinolophus affinis (partim) Peters, MB. Akacl. Berlin, 1871, 

 p. 306 ; Dobson, 1. s. c. 



Diagnosis. Extei-nal characters : As inacrHrus, but with short 

 tail. Cranial : skull rather long ; nasal swellings still broader 

 than in macrurus ; brain-case broad ; tooth-rows rather long. 



Type. $ ad. (in alcohol). Pahang, Malay Peninsula. Pre- 

 sented by the Selangor Museum. Brit. Mus. no. 0.7.3.2. 



I)istributio7i. Lower Siam (Trong) ; Malay Peninsula (Pahang) ; 

 Sumatra. 



Remarhs. A specimen from Sumatra is in every respect, cranial, 

 dental, and external, indistinguishable from those from Pahang 

 a,nd Trong (the latter sent for identification by the United States 

 National Museum). 



13 e. Rhinolophus affinis nesites, subsp. n. 



Rhinolojyhus affinis Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci. 

 iii. (1901) p. 135. 



Diagnosis. External characters : As sup>erans, but smaller, and 

 with shorter tibia. Cranial characters unknown. 



Tyjje. 2 ^fl- (ii^ alcohol). Bunguran Isl., IST. Natunas, Aug. 24th, 

 1900. Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Un. St. Nat. Mus. 

 no. 104753. 



Remarks. This is evidently an ofishoot of the Malacca form, 

 Rli. a. superans, isolated on the outlying N. Natunas, and 

 developed into a well-mai-ked race (or species). It still shows 

 some of the chief characters of super ans : the large ears, broad 

 liorse-shoe, and short tail ; but, to judge from the metacarpals 

 (the forearms are broken), it is decidedly smaller, it would seem 

 still a little smallei- than Rh. a. tener, and the tibia is very short. 

 The skull is so much damaged that I have only been able to 

 examine the teeth and the lower jaw. 



13/. Rhinolophus affinis Horsf., typicus. 



Rhinolophus affinis Horsf., Zool. Res. Java (1824), pi. [7], 

 figs. A, B. 



Rhinolophus affinis (partim) Peters, 1. s. c. (1871); Dobson, 

 1. s. c. (1878). 



I am unable to give a definite diagnosis of this, the '• typical," 

 form of Rh. affinis, having seen only one very old skin (the type) 

 and a fragment of the skull, representing the facial portion and 

 the tooth-rows. But these are sufficient to show, first of all, of 

 course, the specific characters (pandurate sella, lengthened III.^, 

 dentition, &c.) ; secondly, that this form is quite difterent from 

 any of its next neighbours, on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula 

 (supera/is), on the N. Natunas {nesites), or on Lombok [j^rinceps). 

 The horse-shoe seems, allowing for some shrinkage, to lie quite 

 as narrow as in Rh. a. himalayanus ; the nasal swellings, too, are 

 as narrow as in himalayanus and tener. But, although the 



