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beyond and above the vertical membrane which supports the inner or 

 anterior nose-leaf. This fine species was procured by Capt. Tickell 

 in the neighbourhood of Chyebassa, in Central India. 



2. Rh. perniger, Hodgson, J. A. S. XII, 414.* Distinguished by 

 its large size, and delicately soft and long, curly, blackish fur, having 

 a slight ashy cast from the hairs being thus tipped. A fine specimen 

 which I saw in Dr. Griffith's possession, from Cherra-Poonjee (Sylhet), 

 and which has since been forwarded by him to the museum of the 

 Hon'ble Company in London, measured five inches from muzzle 

 to extremity of foot. The only example now before me is too much 

 injured about the head to permit of a description being taken of the 

 peculiarities of its facial membranes ; and Mr. Hodgson's account, 

 excepting as regards size and colouring, applies, for the most part, to 

 the species generally of the present subgroup. The length of the fore- 

 arm in the latter specimen (which was presented to the Society by Mr. 

 Hodgson,) is two inches and three-quarters, and of tibia an inch and 

 three-eighths. Inhabits the central region of the sub-Himalayas. 



3. Rh. tragatus,\ Hodgson, J. A. S. IV, 699. This species was so 

 named in reference to the development of its anti-helix, as compared 

 with the very slight indication of one traceable in Hipposideros armiger 

 (v. nobilis ?); but the appellation is far from being felicitous, as the 

 anti-helix (not tragus, as indeed was duly pointed out by Mr. 

 Hodgson,) is less developed than is usual in the present subgroup. 

 Mr. Hodgson described this Bat to be " uniform deep brown, with 

 the tips paler and rusty;" but two of three specimens sent by him are 

 certainly of a light brown, and one of them, more particularly, has the 

 upper parts tipped with dull maronne, which produces a general shade 



* Probably the Rh. luctus, Tem., of which I can get at no description, though Mr. 

 Gray alludes to it as stated to be black with an ashy tinge ; vide ' Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History' for 1842, p. 257, where Mr. Gray describes a Rh. morio from 

 Malacca, Singapore. " The front central lobe of the nose-leaf large, three-lobed ; fur 

 reddish-brown. Very like Rh. luctus in general appearance, and perhaps the colour 

 may have changed by the specimen having been taken from spirits." Why therefore 

 impose a new name, or at any rate why not put a mark of doubt after the word morio, 

 and add Rh. luctus, Tem., var. ? Most probably this is the Rh. luctus, Tern., var. rufus, 

 from Manilla, of MM. Eydoux and Gervais, in the Zoology of the Voyage of la Favo- 

 rite. — Rh. luctus is described from Java. 



f Misprinted torquatus in Mr. Gray's " Revision." 



