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It will be seen that Captain Hutton*8 dimensions considerably ex- 

 ceed those given by the other authorities. The most noteworthy di- 

 vergence is in the length of the head and body, but Hatton expressly 

 says that his measurements are taken from fresh specimens, so that part 

 at least of the discrepancy may bo accounted for by the shrinking of 

 specimens preserved in alcohol. 



Mr. Hodgson does not give any particular account of the habits of 

 this species in Nepal. Hutton's note about the manners of these bats in 

 Masuri is this, " They come out of the caves in the earlier twilight 

 hours, and may be seen flitting rapidly at some height in the air, chasing 

 the small flies and beetles which abound during the rainy season." 



Dr. Dobson mentions that the type of Bhinolophus macrotis is in the 

 collection of the Indian Museum. There are three specimens of this 

 species in that collection, an adult female in alcohol presented by Mr. 

 Hodgson in 1842, from Nepal, which has been mentioned above ; and two 

 adult males in alcohol from Masuri, presented by Captain Hutton in 

 1852. The Nepal specimen is therefore doubtless the type as under- 

 stood by Dr. Dobson, but this fact is not mentioned in the catalogue 

 appended to his Monograph, nor in Dr. Anderson's ' Catalogue of 

 Mammalia in the Indian Museum ' (1881). 



6. Rhinolophus appinis. 



Rliinolo'phus ajinis, Horsfield, Zool. Research. Java, (1824) j Dobson, Mon. As. 

 Chir. p. 47 (1876) ; Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. p. 112 (1878). 



This species is entered here with considerable doubt. The only 

 ground for its inclusion is an entry in the ' Catalogue of Chiroptera in 

 the British Museum ' of a specimen of Bh. affinis from " Nipal," pre- 

 sented by Mr. Hodgson. It is quite possible that the locality quoted 

 merely rests on the evidence of an erroneous museum label, and that the 

 specimen was really procured by Mr. Hodgson in Darjiling, where Bh. 

 affinis appears to be common. No synonym is quoted under the entry 

 of this particular specimen to show that it ever bore a name bestowed 

 by Mr. Hodgson ; and specimens of V. mystacinus, Megaderma lyra^ and 

 Flecotus auritus, certainly obtained by Mr. Hodgson in Darjiling or the 

 Sikkim Tarai, and never in Nepal, are in that work entered as from 

 Nepal. 



A reference to the register of the British Museum would settle the 

 question ; for, if the specimen of Bh. affinis presented by Mr. Hodgson 

 was only received in 1847, or on any subsequent date, it could not have 

 been collected in Nepal. 



