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between the legs, along the sides of the body and the arms, and between 

 the index, second and third fingers ; the rest being dull semi-transparent 

 white. The length from the apex of the nose to the posterior margin 

 of the inter- femoral margin, is four and seven -eighth inches, of which the 

 tail measures one inch. The extent of the flying membrane eighteen 

 inches. Dentition as in T. melanopogon. The smaller differs in having 

 the chest of a pale brownish- white, the abdomen and the pubes light rust- 

 coloured, leaving the sides pure white. Mr. Blyth quotes Taphozous 

 pulcher, Elliot, from Southern India, as being " black-brown above with 

 white pencillings, and pure white below," (Journal As. Soc. XIII. 1844. 

 p. 492,) from which, as well as from Mr. Elliot's specimen, at present in 

 the Museum of the Asiatic Society, it appears that the Indian more 

 resemble the Malayan individuals than those of the Indian Archipelago, 

 described by Temminck. The internal surface of the gular sac secretes, 

 an odorous oily fluid, of a light brown colour. 



Gen. — Rhinolophus, Geoffroy. 



Rhinolophus, Gray. 

 Rhinolophus affinis, Horsfield. 

 Hab. — Pinang. 

 Java. 

 Of two individuals, the male is reddish- brown above, light greyish- 

 brown beneath ; the female is above golden fulvous, which becomes 

 lighter on the lower parts. 



4 7 



Entire length of the male, . . 2 §* inches — female, 2 g- inches. 



4 5 



Tail, . . . . .... ^ „ female, g* „ 



2 4 



Extent of flying membrane, . . 11 g* „ female, 12 g- ,, 



Incis. r Canin. - — - Molar, -— - 

 4 1^1 5 . 5 



The inguinal warts are highly developed in the female. 



Hipposideros, Gray. 

 A. Adult male with a frontal pore, with a tuft of rigid hairs. 

 Hipposideros Diadema, Gray t 

 Syn. — Rhinolophus Diadema, Geoffroy ? 

 Hab. — Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Timor. 

 The Malayan individuals are, according to age and sex, of a more or 

 less intense reddish or greyish-brown above, under certain lights assum- 



