480 Notices of various Mammalia. [[No. 150. 



— Rhinolophince, comprising the genera Megaderma, Rhinoluphus and 

 Hipposideros, and Nycteris (which at least is a Malayan genus), — Dy- 

 sopodince, including Dysopes, (with its various subdivisions, as Chei 

 romeles, fyc.,) Taphozous, and Rhinopoma, — and Vesper tilioni nee, or 

 the ordinary Bats. 



The Megaderma lyra appears to be a common species throughout 

 India, and I have described its habit of preying on smaller Bats, first 

 sucking their blood, in XI, 255. In reference to that paper, Mr. 

 Frith informs me that a number of these Bats were in the habit of re- 

 sorting to the verandah of his residence in Mymunseng, and that every 

 morning the ground under them was strewed with the hind-quarters 

 of frogs, and the wings of large grasshoppers and crickets: on one 

 occasion the remains of a small fish were observed ; but frogs appear- 

 ed to constitute their chief diet — never toads : and of a quiet evening 

 these animals could be distinctly heard crunching the heads and 

 smaller bones of their victims. Other species of Bats were noticed to 

 keep aloof from this retreat, but Mr. Frith had no opportunity of con- 

 firming my observation that the Megaderma preys upon smaller ani- 

 mals of its tribe. The disproportion of the sexes in the assemblages of 

 this species in their diurnal retreats is noticed in XI, 600; and indeed 

 1 think that the same pretty nearly holds throughout the family. In 

 Mr. Elliot's catalogue, the name carnatica is proposed, with a mark of 

 doubt, for the Megaderma of S. India, which however is perfectly 

 identical with that of Calcutta. 



Rhinolophus, Geoff, and Cuv. In preparing a notice of the Indian 

 species of this difficult genus, so far as I am acquainted with them, I 

 labour under the considerable disadvantage of not having M. Tem- 

 minck's valuable monograph to refer to; but I will nevertheless endea- 

 vour to review the history of the group, so far as the means at my 

 disposal will permit of. The first endeavour at collating the species 

 would appear to be that of M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, in the ' Annales 

 du Museum/ torn. XX, pp. 254 et seq. (1813). Four species are there 

 noticed, in addition to the two common in Europe*; and among the 

 former is a species from Timor, the Rhinolophe crumenifere of M. 



* A third European species, found towards the South (in Dalraatia, Sicily, &c.,) 

 also in the Levantine countries, and it would appear all Africa, is the Rh. capensis, 

 Licht., Rh. clivosus, Hupp., v. Rh. Geqffroyi, A. Smith. 



