1844.] Notices of various Mammalia. 489 



the skin in the dry specimen before me, which, as before mentioned, 

 was received from Arracan. Length of fore- arm two inches and a 

 quarter, and of tibia an inch ; ears anteally three-quarters of an inch, 

 and nearly as much broad. 



4. H. speoris : Vesp. speoris, Schneider, but evidently not of M. 

 Desmarest, which is Rh. marsupialis of M. Geoffroy's lectures, 

 founded on the Rhinolophe crumenifere of Lesson and Lesueur : Rh. 

 Dukkunensis, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 99: H. apiculatus, Gray, the 

 male, and H. penicillatus, Gray, the female, Mag. Zool. and Bot. 

 No. XII. For description, vide Elliot, in Madras Jl. No. XXIV, 98. 

 Colour nearly as in H. armiger (v. nobilis ?J : length of fore-arm two 

 inches, and of tibia an inch. Inhabits Southern India. 



This species is approximated to H. insignis, (Horsf.,) in Mr. Gray's 

 paper, and it may be the doubtfully cited H. insignis from Ceylon of 

 Mr. Waterhouse's Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Zoological So- 

 ciety's Museum. 



Others have the facial crests altogether less complicated, and no 

 fringes of membrane exterior to the nose-leaf. 



5. H.fulvus, Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bot., No. XII; Rh. fulgens, 

 Elliot, Madras. JL, No. XXIV, 99. This is perhaps the most vividly 

 coloured of the whole class of Mammalia ; at least I know of no species 

 which can at all compete with it for brilliancy of hue. The colour of 

 the fur is here alluded to, for that of the naked skin of the Mandrill 

 and of certain Cercopitheci can scarcely be surpassed. The general 

 tint of the fur is splendidly bright ferruginous, that of the upper-parts 

 being slightly tipped with a darker shade; membranes dusky. Length, 

 according to Mr. Elliot, an inch and nine-tenths, of tail nine-tenths 

 of an inch ; expanse ten inches and a half: weight 4 dr. 20 gr. : fore- 

 arm an inch and five-eighths; longest finger one and a half; tibia 

 three-quarters of an inch; foot (minus claws) a quarter of an inch: 

 ears anteally eleven-sixteenths of an inch, and the same across; 

 their form scarcely apiculated. Inhabits Southern India, where very 

 rare. 



6. H. murinus, Gray, ibid. ; Rh. murinus, Elliot, ibid. This I have 

 not yet seen, but shortly expect some specimens from Mr. Jerdon, who 

 informs me that it is common at Nellore. It closely resembles the 



