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numbers jumping on the trees, and when disturbed make a 

 peculiar short howling noise. One was known to have 

 attacked a cooly on a coffee estate carrying a rice bag. 

 The Malabars eat the flesh of this monkey, and consider it 

 very delicious food ; and some Europeans who have tasted 

 it are of the same opinion. 



Hipposideros Temletonii, nobis, 

 Rhinolphus Voulha* Temp. 

 Above dusky brown, this colour being confined to the tips 

 of the hairs, the rest being grayish. Beneath, lighter 

 ooloured. In males, above and behind the complicated 

 nasal appendage there is the cup-like depression containing 

 a waxy matter, apparently secreted by a glandular body 

 placed under the skin, so often seen in other species of 

 Hipposideros. Tail excerted for about one-eighth inch . 

 Length of head and body ... ... 3 inches. 



Tail ... ... ... 1 „ 



Expanse ... ... 11 „ 



Dr. Templeton has fully described this species and the 

 next, which he was inclined to believe was only a variety, 

 in his unfinished Catalogue of Ceylon Mammals. 



Hipposideros Atratus, nobis. 

 Rhinolphus ater, Temp. 

 Smaller than the last ; tips of hair sooty blackish brown, 

 the rest silvery grey ; membrane, also darker coloured, 

 beneath fuscus. 



Both these species are common in old buildings in 

 Colombo. I have also seen them in Kandy. 



Rhinolphus Rubidus, n. sp., nobis. 

 Head and body of a deep orange red colour ; membrane 

 pale brown ; interfemoral membrane, enclosing the whole 



* Vavula is a very vague term for & species of bat, for Vavula, the 

 Sinhalese word, applied to all bats. 



