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9. Mr. J. H. Howell, of the Pilot Service. Some fine specimens of water- 

 snakes, and a few fishes, procured at the Sandheads. 



10. Mr. J. T. Babanau. Two foetuses of the wild Sow. 



11. Mr. E. Lindstedt. A collection of several species of Snakes, from 

 Malacca. 



12. Baboo Rajendro Mullick. Two specimens of Strix Jlammea, and a dead 

 white Guinea-fowl : the latter, however common in Europe, is held in some 

 estimation by the native gentlemen who keep collections of living animals. 



13. Mr. C. Bell, of the Preventive Service. A dead King Parrot (Aprosmk- 

 tus scapulatus). 



14. Mr. W. E. Templeton, Assistant in the Museum. A specimen of the 

 American Gallinula (?) martinica, (L.) 



15. R. W. G. Frith, Esq. A dead English common hen, with large spurs ; 

 also the skin of a very interesting species of Rhinolophine Bat, which I can 

 only classify as a new generic form, by the name 



Calops, nobis. General character of Rhinolophus and Hipposideros, but the 

 tail and calcanea wanting, and the inter-crural membrane acutely emarginated 

 to the depth of an even line with the knees. Ears delicate, large, broad, and 

 rounded ; continued round to the front, without a trace of emargination 

 separating an anti-helix. Facial pit surmounted by a small field, divided by 

 a raised medial line, and above this projects a small crest of membrane, having 

 an abruptly rising, obtusely bifid tip, which is bent forward : behind this 

 membrane, a minute pencil of hairs indicates the position of the sac obser- 

 vable in Hipposideros : each nostril is surrounded by a slight fringe of mem- 

 brane ; and a broader fringe borders the facial cavity in front, impending the 

 upper lip ; but the sides of the facial cavity are densely fringed with hair only ; 

 and the fur is long and dense upon the forehead. The teeth cannot be examined 

 without sacrificing the unique specimen. The proportions of the wings, and 

 the development of the ante-brachial membrane, are the same as in Nycteris. 

 The fur is long, and delicately fine, as in true Rhinolophus. 



C. Frithii, nobis. Length, from nose to rump, about 1£ in. ; of the middle of 

 the inter-crural membrane but £ in. ; head f in. ; ears posteriorly | in., or some- 

 what less ; fore-arm If in.; shank |£in. ; foot with claws f in. ; longest finger 2£ 

 in. Colour dusky or blackish, the fur tipped with dull ashy-brown above, and 

 with paler and somewhat albescent ashy below : the membranes fuscous. In- 

 habits the Soonderbuns of Lower Bengal. 



It is somewhat remarkable that I have not yet succeeded in obtaining a single 

 fresh specimen of a Rhinolophus or Hipposideros in Lower Bengal ; and the only 

 additional Indian species I know of, to those enumerated in XIII, 480 et seg., 

 is a Hipposideros thus described to me by Dr. Templeton of Ceylon, together 

 with a notice of a species according very well with H, spcoris. 



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