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Show 1871.] PROF. W. PETERS ON BURMESE BATS. 513 2. On some Bats collected by Mr. F. Day in Burma. By Professor W . PETERS, F.M.Z.S. [Received May 16, 1871.] Mr. Sclater has very kindly sent to me a small collection of Bats from Burma, which, although consisting only of four species, contains a very interesting new form of Rhinolophi. This is a new proof how much is still to be done for a perfect knowledge of a very interesting, and in the household of nature very important, division of Mammalia, if only half as much care were taken to search for them as for the collection of doubtless much more attractive birds. 1. CYNONYCTERIS AMPLEXICAUDATA, Geoffroy. Pteropus leschenaultii, Desmarest. 2. PHYLLORHINA FULVA, Gray. Hipposideros fulvus et murinus, Gray (1838) = Rhinolophus fulgens et murinus, Elliot (1838) = Phyllorhina aurita, Tomes (1859) = !Hipposideros aruensis, Gray (1858). This very distinct species, first known from Madras and Ceylon, has been found by Mr. Swinhoe in Amoy, is very likely identical with Dr. Gray's H. aruensis, and has therefore probably the same geographical distribution as Ph. diadema. Fig. 3. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Phyllorhina trifda. (Natural size.) Fig. 1. Head, from the side. 2. Head, in front. 3. Right hinder extremity, with the tail and interfemoral membrane. 3. PHYLLORHINA TRIFIDA, n. sp. Auriculis mediocribus, basi dilatatis, apice acutis; prosthematis margine superiore trifido, haud incrassato: metacarpo tertio quarto breviore ; patagiis tarso affixis ; supra brunnea, subtus alba. Related to Ph. tridens and Ph. tricuspidata in the form ot the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1871, No. XXXIII. |