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16. PhyllorMna larvata. 



Ehinoloplius larvatus. vulgaris, insignis et deformis, Horsfield, Zooloy. 



Mesearch. in Java (1824). 

 Rhinolophus insignis, Temminck, Monog. Mammal, ii. p. 74. 

 Hipposiaeros insignis, Gray, Mag. Zool. Sf Bot. ii. p. 492. 

 Hipposideros vulgaris, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p. 488. 

 Hipposideros larvatus, Blyth, Cat. Mammal. Mus. As. Soe.v. 26. 

 Speorifera vulgaris, Ch-ay, Pi-oc. Zool. Soc. Loncl. 1866, p. 82. 

 Phyllorhina larvata, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1871, p. 320 ; Bohson, 



MoTwgr. Astat. Chiropt. p. 68, figs, a, h (nose-leaf) (1876). 



Ears conspicuously larger than in Ph. speoris, nearly as long as 

 the head, but otherwise very similar in general form to those of that 

 species ; the nose-leaf is also similar, but the upper margin of the 

 transverse terminal leaf is less convex, and the front edge of the 

 horseshoe is divided by a small notch ; the frontal sac is weU. deve- 

 loped in adult males, as in Ph. speoris, but in adult females is com- 

 paratively much smaller, its place in dried skins being indicated only 

 by a pencil of dark hairs (see figures referred to above in ' Monogr. 

 Asiatic Chiroptera '). Some male specim.ens have the wart-like glan- 

 dular eminences on each side of the transverse terminal leaf greatly 

 developed, resembling closely the same parts in Ph. armigera, 

 Hodgs. (Plate IX. fig. 8). 



Wings from the ankle-joint, or from the tibia a little higher 

 up ; interfemoral membrane triangular behind ; extreme tip of tail 

 free. 



The colour of the fur is extremely variable, according to locality 

 and season ; and the species has received almost as many different 

 names as the specimens obtained have presented different colours. 

 Generally reddish brown, the base of the hairs paler. 



Length (of an adult cJ), head and body 3", tail 1"'5, head 1""1, 

 ear 0"-95 x 0"-8, forearm 2"-45, thumb 0"-35, third finger 3"-4, fifth 

 finger 2"-6, tibia 1", calcaneum 0"-65, foot 0"-48. 



Hah. Eastern Bengal (Zhasia Hills, Sylhet ; Goalparah, Arra- 

 can) ; Burma (Penang, Prome, Tenasserim) ; Siam ; Java ; Philippine 

 Islands. 



This species is closely allied to Ph. speoris ; but is at once distin- 

 guished by its large ears, by the absence of the spine-like projection 

 at the lower third of the outer margin of the conch, by the notch in the 

 front margin of the nose-leaf, by the tail being almost wholly con- 

 tained within the interfemoral membrane, which is triangular be- 

 hind, and by its conspicuously larger size. 



„. ad. sk. India. E L Company. 



h. S ad., al. Siam. Mr. Mouhot [C.]. 



c. 6 ad., al. Purchased. 



d. ad. sk. Java. 



e. ad. sk. Manilla. r, v. j 

 /. skeleton. Purchased. 



The species in the following section are at once distinguished from 

 all the preceding by the absence of secondary leaflets on the sides of 



a. 



