240 J. Scully— Oti the Ohiroptera of Nepal. [No. 3, 



shown, under the head of Cynonycteris amplexicaudata, that this was 

 founded on error. Consequently, the present notice is the first authentic 

 record of the occurrence of C. marginatus in Nepal. 



4. Rhinolophus luctus. 



Rhinolophus luctus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, ii, p. 24 (1835) ; Hutton, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 694 ; Dobson, Mon, Asiat. Chir. p. 39 (1876) ; Cat. 

 Chir. Brit. Mus. p. 105 (1878). 



Rhinolophus perniger, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xii, pt. i, p. 414 

 (1843.) 



There seems to be no doubt now that the species described by 

 Hodgson, from Nepal, under the name of BhinolopJius perniger is, as 

 Blyth first stated, the same as Bh. luctus, Temminck. Mr. Hodgson 

 gives the following measurements of the type of Bh. perniger, a female : 

 length of head and body 3*25 inches, tail 1*12, head 1*31, expanse 17, 

 ear from anteal base 1'68, ear from crown of head or posteal base 1*37, 

 radius 2*62, third finger 4"0, tibia 1*37, foot 0"81. Captain Hutton 

 gives, for Bh. luctus from Masuri, head and body 3'5 to 4'6 inches, 

 tail 1-95 to 2-12, ear 1-5, expanse 17-12 to 18-5, radius 2*76 to 3, third 

 finger 4' 5. 



Mr. Hodgson did not present any example of i^^. j>erm^er to the 

 British Museum, but he gave a skeleton of the species to the Asiatic 

 Society in 1842, which is at present in the collection of the Indian 

 Museum. Dr. Dobson enters this example in the catalogue appended 

 to his ' Monograph of Asiatic Chiroptera ' (p. 194), and under the heading 

 of locality he puts " Nipal ? " There can, however, be no doubt that 

 this specimen having been received from Mr. Hodgon in 1842 must have 

 come from Nepal and no other country. I have not been able to trace 

 any other authentic record of a Nepalese specimen of the species. 



Concerning the habits of this bat in Nepal, Mr. Hodgson says that it 

 is shy and never approaches houses or cultivated country ; and that it 

 dwells in the deep forests and caves of the more precipitous mountains. 

 On this Captain Huttou remarks that such are not the habits of Bh. 

 luctus at higher elevations in the Himalayas further west than Nepal. 

 I am disposed to think that Hodgson's observation is correct, so far as 

 Nepal is concerned. I never obtained a specimen in the valley during 

 my residence there, and, if it had anything like the habits of Bh, minor 

 or of the different species of Fhyllorhina in Nepal, I could not have 

 failed to secure such a fine and conspicuous species as Bh. luctus. 



As Mr. Hodgson obtained very few specimens of it in Nepal (per- 

 haps only one), and judging from my own want of success, I believe 



