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M. Peron and Lesueur, which 1 conceive to be erroneously identified 

 with the Vespertilio speoris of Schneider, described to inhabit India, 

 as it differs from the latter in its considerably larger size, and (it 

 would seem) more rufous colouring. 



In the second edition of Cuvier's ' Regne Animal' (dated 1829), 

 these six species only are referred to : but Dr. Horsfield, in his ' Zoo- 

 logical Researches in Java' (dated 1824), had described seven (alleged) 

 species as inhabitants of that island, two of which have since been 

 brought together by Mr. Gray, after an examination of the original 

 specimens collected by Dr. Horsfield, — Rh. deformis, Horsfield, being 

 thus identified with Rh. insignis, Horsfield. 



Then followed M. Temminck's Monograph of the genus, wherein 

 (if I remember rightly) several species were added to those of his pre- 

 decessors ; of which, among perhaps others unnoticed in Mr. Gray's 

 subsequent synopsis, I find mentioned by authors a Rh. luctus, Tern., 

 from Java, an alleged rufous variety of which is described in the 

 Zoology of the Voyage of la Favorite, from Manilla, — also a Rh. 

 pusillus, from India, which appellation is referred with a mark of 

 doubt to a specimen in the Zoological Society's Museum, in Mr. Wa- 

 terhouse's Catalogue of the mammalia preserved in that collection, — 

 where also is mentioned, but likewise with a mark of doubt, Rh. in- 

 signis, Horsf., from Ceylon. 



Confining ourselves now to the describers of Asiatic species*, Col. 

 Sykes, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1831, describes 

 a Rh. dukhunensis, distinguishing this from the Rhinolophe crumenifire 

 of Peron and Lesueur, which, it is added, is the Rhin. marsupialis of 

 M. Geoffroy's lectures, and the Rh. speoris of M. Desmarest, by its 

 much smaller size, &c; but this smaller size corresponds with the 

 original description of Vesp. speoris from India, the colour of which is 

 however stated to be " pale yellowish ash-brown" (apud Shaw), which 

 does not apply well to either, though better to that of India : and I 

 have little doubt that Col. Sykes's species is the true speoris, to which 

 dukhunensis would therefore be referred as a synonym, as likewise the 

 subsequent names apiculatus, Gray, for the male, and penicillatus, 

 Gray, for the female. 



* The form is peculiar to the Old World, inclusive however of Australia (apud 

 J. E. Gray). 



