1888.] W. T. Blanford— iVofes on Indian Chiroptera. 263 



Rhinolophus tragatus. 



This Himalayan bat was identified by Dobson (P. A. S. B. 1872, 

 p. 208) with the European E. ferrum-eg[uinum, and unquestionably the two 

 are very closely similar. The identification has ever since been gener- 

 ally accepted, and, in Dobson's great works on the Chiroptera, JB. tragatus 

 is quoted as a synonym of -B. ferrum-equinum. 



There is, however, a distinction not often to be made out in skins, 

 but easy of recognition in examples preserved in spirit, that suffices, I 

 think, to justify the separation of the two forms. In B. tragatus, as 

 observed long ago by Blyth (J. A. S. B. XXII, p. 409), the lower lip is 

 traversed by three vertical grooves, as in B. affinis, B. minor, B. macrotis, 

 and many other species, whilst in true B. ferrum-equinum there is but a 

 single groove, as in B. hipposiderus, B. pearsoni^ etc. The nose-leaf as a 

 rule in B. tragatus is considerably broader than in B. ferrum-equinum, 

 but there is some variation. 



All the Himalayan specimens that I have been able to examine, 

 including examples from Darjiling, Nepal, and Masuri, have three grooves. 

 The specimens in the British Museum obtained by Mr. Scully in Gilgit 

 agree, however, entirely with the Paleearctic form, B ferrum-equinum, 

 and have but a single mental groove. 



Hipposiderus diadema. 

 The locality Odeypore given by Dobson for this bat in the Mono- 

 graph of Asiatic Chiroptera, p. 200, and repeated in Anderson's Cata- 

 logue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, p. 115, is not Odey- 

 pore or Udaipur in Rajputana, but, I believe, a small state lying north- 

 west of Sambalpur. The locality given for my own specimens " Pullun- 

 dur. Central Provinces " is S. E. of Nagpur and not far from Bhandara. 

 These localities are of some importance, being the only two in the 

 Peninsula of India, so far as I can learn, whence this bat has been 

 recorded, though it was obtained in abundance by Kelaart at Kandy 

 in Ceylon, and has a wide distribution from the Himalayas to Timor and 

 the Philippines. 



Hipposiderus bicolor. 

 From the remarks made under Bhinolophus oninor, it is evident that 

 Mr Hodgson must have obtained one of the forms referred to this species 

 in the Nepal Valley, I think from the figure, H. amhoinensis. I am 

 disposed to agree with Mr. Scully and to class II. amhoinensis as a dis- 

 tinct species from H. bicolor {H. fulvus). 



C(ELOPS FRITHI. 



This species, originally described by Blyth from a Sundarban 



