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ing a golden lustre, owing to the whitish points of the hairs ; beneath, 

 they are of a lighter greyish- brown. Individuals occur of a light golden- 

 brown, in colours resembling Rhinolophus larvatus, Horsfield. In the 

 adult male, the livid flesh-coloured nasal appendage is larger, more com- 

 plicated, and somewhat different from the figure given by Geoffroy 

 St. Hilaire, (Ann. du Museum XX, PL 5 and 6), which resembles the 

 female in the simpler appendage and in the absence of the frontal pore. 

 The latter organ, in the adult male, is large, secreting a yellowish 

 brown oily fluid, the odour of which resembles that of Arctictis Bintu- 

 rong, Fisher. A female, during lactation, presented a great inequality 

 in the development of the inguinal warts, of which the right measured 

 one- quarter of an inch in length. At the time of her capture, it was 

 reported that a young one had been " sucking" the right wart. Not 

 having myself observed the young clinging to that organ, I cannot 

 vouch for the correctness of a statement which, if authentic, would tend 

 to explain the use, being to afford support to the young, when not suck- 

 ing. The size of the Malayan individuals appears to exceed those from 

 Timor, the entire length of the former being five and six- eighth inches, 

 of which the tail measures two inches. Extent of the flying membrane 

 twenty-one and a half to twenty-two inches. The extremity of the 2nd 

 phalanx of the fourth and fifth fingers is bifid, or terminating with two 

 minute diverging joints, a structure also existing in the Malayan indivi- 

 duals of the following species. 



Incis. h- Canin. ; — - Molar, --— 

 4 1 — 1 5 . 5 



Hipposideros nobilis, Gray. 



Syn. — Rhinolophus nobilis, Horsfield. 



Rhinolophus nobilis, apud Fisher. 



Rhinolophe fameux, Temminck. 



Rhinolophus nobilis, apud Schinz. 

 Hab. — Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Java, Sumatra, Timor, Amboyna. 

 The frontal pore is less developed than in the former species, as com- 

 pared with which the present is of a more slender form, though of 

 a size little less inferior. Entire length five and four-eighth inches, of 

 which the tail measures two and one-eighth inches. Extent of flying 

 membrane twenty-one and four eighth inches. Dentition similar to that 



