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Show 1905.] OF THE GENUS RHINOLOPHUS. 131 Blyth's Rh. subbaclius (1844) from Nepal, erroneously believed by himself to be the same as Hodgson's V. subbadia, is a genuine Rhinolophus. The following analysis of the original description will make it evident that it. is the species here under consideration : (1) The connecting process is stated to be " conspicuously developed, and pointed " ; one of the chief characters of subbadius. (2) The lancet is but " slightly emarginated towards the point " ; also one of its principal characters; for the salient point in the sentence is the word " slightly," as proved by a comparison with the immediately subsequent description of lepidus, in which the lancet is called " considerably emarginated towards the tip." (3) Forearm " 1| inches" (34'8 mm.) ; third finger " 1|- inches" (47‘6 mm.); these measurements, as being smaller than in any other species, and like those of the individual before me (forearm 34*2, third finger 46-4 mm.), settle the identification beyond all doubt. Rh. garoensis.-Dobson's Rh. garoensis (1872) is evidently the same species as Blyth's Rh. subbadius* (to which there is no reference in Dobson's 1 Monograph ' or 1 Catalogue '). The two authors emphasise the same points :-(1) The connecting process is described by Dobson as " forming an acutely pointed elevation." (2) The lancet is a " broad, triangular, pointed process," or, as he says in his 1 Monograph,' " almost an equilateral triangle " ; both of these features are the same as already pointed out by Blyth. (3) The Bat is said to be " probably the smallest known species of the genus," the forearm measuring only l -3 in. (33 mm.). (4) Width of horse-shoe 0'2 in. (5'1 mm.); a very narrow horse-shoe is also characteristic of the species (5-5 mm., as measured by myself). In the type of garoensis p3 is, according to Dobson, in the tooth-row ; this is .of no importance for the identification ; the position of this tooth is " vacillating " in the whole lepidus section. 2 2 . R h in o l o p h u s m o n o c e r o s , sp . n . Diagnosis. Siibbadius-type. Larger : forearm, in a not full-grown example, 38'2 mm. Details. Connecting process (text-fig. 22 c, on p. 121) and lancet as in subbadms. Horse-shoe markedly broader. General size considerably larger. Tail proportionately longer. The type, and only specimen known to me, is not full-grown (supraorbital crests still separated posteriorly ; no saggital crest; metacarpals far from having acquired their full length). In the table p. 132 I give only those measurements which may be of some use for comparison with Rh. subbadius. Dentition. p3 external, p., and p4 in contact, p2 in row ; cusp very minute. Type. $ juv. (in alcohol). Baksa, Formosa; June 5th, 1893. Collected by Mr. P. A. Holst. Presented by Henry Seebohm, Esq. Brit. Mus. no. 94.2.4.1. * This view was held by the late Dr. Blanford, who, however, put the names down as synonyms of Eli. minor (J. A. S. B. lvii. pt. ii. no. 3 (1888) p. 262; Fauna Brit. Ind., Mamm. pt. ii. (1891) p. 277). |