and Description of Neio Genera and Species. 493 



Fur pale mouse- colour, hairs with brown ends, and very small white 

 tips; whitish beneath; ears very large, rounded, with 2 or 3 lines of 

 long hairs on the front edge ; tail, last joint slightly produced. In- 

 habits India, (Madras.) W. Elliot, Esq. British Museum. 



This difference of colour is not sexual, as Mr Elliot had male 

 and female of each. See also Rhinolophus armiger, Hodgs. from 

 Nepaul. 



b. Forehead concave, deep, with a tuft of rigid brown hair in the 

 front, in tke place of the frontal pore ; (tail destroyed;) sides 

 of face leafy. 

 Pencilled Horse-shoe Bat, Hipposideros penicillatus, Gray. 

 Brown, with a tuft of brown hair on each side over the eyes, and a 

 small pencil of rigid brown ones on the front of the forehead. In- 

 habits India, (Madras.) W. Elliot, Esq. 



c Forehead simple ; nose leaf entire, rounded ; tail as long as the 



membrane ; muzzle leafy on side of nose disk. (India.) 

 Hipposideros diadema, Gray. Rhinolophus diadema, Geoff. 

 Ann. Mus. xx. t. 5. Temm. Mon. n. 2. Inhabits Timor. 



Hipposideros nobilis, Gray. Rhinoloph. nobilis, Horsf. Java, 

 Head from dry specimen, Temm. Mon. No. 1, t. 1, f. 1. Inhabits 

 Java. Museum, India House. 



Hipposideros larvatus, Gray. Rhinolophus larvatus, Horsf. Java, 



head. Temm. Mon. No. 9. Inhabits Java. Museum, India House. 



Hipposideros vulgaris, Rhinolophus vulgaris, Horsf. Java, t. 



7- f. E. head. Inhabits India. British Museum. Museum, India 



House. 



See also Rhinolophus Commersonii, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xx. t. 5, 

 head. Only known from Commerson's drawings ; tail half as long as 

 the thigh. Inhabits Madagascar. See also R. torquatus, Hodgs. 

 of Nepal. 



d. Forehead simple ; nose leaf 3-ioothed ; tail longer than mem- 

 brane ; pubal teats none. Asellia. — Gray. 

 Three-toothed Horse-shoe Bat. Hipposideros tridens, Gray. 

 Rhinolophus tridens, Geoff. Descrip. Egypte, t. 2, in Ann. Mus. 

 xx. t. 5, head. Diet. Sc. Nat. Temm. Monog. No. 6. Cheeks with 

 longitudinal ridges. Inhabits North Africa, (Egypt.) British 

 Museum. 



The difference in the form of the front part of the nose-leaf, on 

 which Dr Horsfield founded part of his specific character, appears 

 to depend on the drying of the specimens. All the specimens de- 

 scribed by that excellent zoologist were in a dry state. I have made 

 the foregoing references to his species after the examination of 



