iUH 15 1909 



On SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN BATS OF THE 



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GENUS RlIINOLOPHUS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE MuSEO ClVICO , GENOA. 



By Knud Andersen 



Plate III. 



The bats which form the subject matter of the present paper 

 were submitted to me for identification by Marquis Giacomo Doria. 

 Two of the species (Rh. fallax and cognatus) are new to science; 

 a third and fourth (Rh. heyensis and alcyone), though named, 

 have never been properly described ; a fiflh , sixth , and seventh 

 (Rh. acrotis, lobatus, and andreinii) were obtained in localities 

 from which the species had not hitherto been recorded. 



1. Rliiiioloplxus Isil lux , sp. n 



(PI. Ill ngs. 1-7.) 



Type. — cf ad., preserved in alcohol. Ighibirei, on the Kemp 

 Welch River, some little way inland, British New Guinea. Collected 

 by Dr. Lamberto Loria f 1 ), 1890. Museo Civico, Genoa. — The 

 only specimen known. 



Horse-shoe markedly broader than in Rh. megaphyllus ; no 

 tooth-like projection on either side of the median notch. Supple- 

 mentary leaflet almost completely covered by the margins of the 



(') An account of'the mammals obtained by Dr. L. Loria in New Guinea was given 

 by Mr. Olclfield Thomas in the Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XVIII, Dec. 1897. The spe- 

 cimen here under consideration was inadvertently omitted when the collection was 

 sent to London (Marquis Doria , in litt.). 



