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RHINOLOPHIUJS. 



Wmg-membrane attached to the tibia a short distance above the 

 ankle-joint ; tail long, last vertebra generally half free ; inter- 

 femoral membrane triangular behind. 



Colour of the fur variable ; in a large specimen from Darjeeling 

 dark brown, somewhat paler at the base ; in two females from 

 Nipal, on the dorsal surface the fur is tricoloured — at the base, for 

 rather more than one third its length, pale sepia, then a band of 

 grey for the same extent, the remaining portion of the hair dark sepia 

 with paler tips ; beneath, at the base and for half their length, of a 

 shade intermediate between that of the upper and lower thirds of 

 the hairs oii the upper surface, the remaining portions to the tips of 

 a lighter shade of the same colour. 



This is the largest Asiatic species of the genus yet discovered ; 

 the fully expanded wings measure nearly two feet across the body 

 from tip to tip. 



Length (of an adult c?, the type), head and body 4"-2, tail 2"*1, 

 head l"-4, ear (anteriorly) 1"-15, forearm 3"-8, thumb 0"-5, third 

 finger 5", fifth finger 4", tibia l"-6, foot 0"-7. 



Hah. Himalaya (Masuri, Darjeeling, Nipal, Khasia HiUs); Ceylon; 

 China (Amoy). 



(Por notes on the habits of this species, see ' Monograph of the 

 Asiatic Chiroptera,' referred to above.) 



7. Phyllorhina leptophylla. 



Phyllorhina leptophylla, Dohson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Btng. 1874, 

 p. 234; Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 66 (1876). 



Ears, rather large, nearly as long as the head, broad and triangu- 

 lar, with subacute tips ; the outer margin of the ear-conch slightly 

 concave beneath the tip ; upper transverse portion of the nose-leaf 

 small, its upper edge simple, thin, narrower than the horseshoe- 

 shaped part, the vertical ridges dividing its front surface discernible 

 at the base only ; horseshoe with a small notch in the centre of its 

 front free edge ; on the sides of the muzzle external to the horseshoe 

 three small leaflets ; frontal sac small, placed at some distance be- 

 hind the nose-leaf. 



Wings from the tibiae near the ankles ; interfemoral membrane 

 triangular behind, the extremity of the tail projecting. 



Fur and integuments dark brown throughout. 



Length (of an adult cf preserved in alcohol), head and body 2"-5, 



