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muzzle and prominent canine teeth ; the ears are kept in quick tremu- 

 lous motion, and there is also frequent but slight movement of the facial 

 crests. The animal is easily shot during its flight, and most of my 

 specimens were obtained in this way. 



Hodgson says that Phyllorhina armigera breeds once a year, to- 

 wards the close of summer, and produces two young, differing from the 

 parents chiefly in the very restricted development of the nasal append- 

 ages. I made no observations on this point, but I note that in a female 

 specimen captured on the 27th July, the pectoral teats, which are 

 situated near the anterior margin of the axilla, are enlarged. 



10. Phtlloehina fulva. 



Hipposideros fulvus, Grray, Mag. Zool. and Bot. ii, p. 492 (1838). 

 Phyllorhina fulva, Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chir. p. 71 (1876) ; Cat. Chir. Brit. 

 Mns. p. 149 (1878J. 



The following particulars are derived from three examples of this 

 bat captured in the Nepal Valley on the 21st and 22nd August, and the 

 10th of January : 



? 9 cf 



Length, head and body 2*0 2*1 1*9 



tail 1-2 1-4 1-35 



head 0-75 075 0-75 



ear 0-85 0-82 0-9 



forearm 1*6 1*64 1*6 



third finger 2"45 2-5 2*4 



fifth finger 2-15 2-14 2'0 



tibia 0-73 0-75 0-72 



foot 0-33 0-34 0-3 



calcaneum 0'35 0*4 0*37 



Expanse 10*2 10*0 



Nothing in the coloration of these specimens recalls Mr. Blyth's 

 remark (J. A. S. B. XIII, Pt. i, p. 489, 1844) that this species is perhaps 

 the most vividly coloured of the whole class of mammalia. The fur is 

 long, dense, and soft, above smoky brown, the hairs white at their bases ; 

 below paler, especially on the throat. Ears and membrane dusky. Wing- 

 membrane from the tarsus. 



These examples agree well with specimens of Phyllorhina fulva in 

 the British Museum, named by Dr. Dobson. That author considers 

 that Ph. fulva is only a variety of Ph. hicolor, and on this point I cannot 

 offer any useful opinion. But Ph. amhoinensis, which he also regards as 

 a variety of Ph. hicolor, seems to me quite distinct from Ph. fulva. 



