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Show 616 MR. tt. SWINHOE ON CHINESE MAMMALS. [June 23, (P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 375); is called in Chinese Me-shuy, and said to come from the south-west part of Kwangtuug Province. CHIROPTERA. The Bats I procured during my last residence in China I submitted to Prof. W . Peters of Berlin, who has kindly supplied me with the names of those known, and with descriptions of the new species. In the following list Dr. Peters's notes are placed within inverted commas. 5. "CYNONYCTERIS AMPLEXICAUDATA,Geoffroy." (FlyingFox.) A female of this frugivorous Bat was brought to me at Amoy in May 1866. It was dead, but had a live young one still fastened to its breast. The young animal was more than a third the size of the mother, covered with soft fine hair on the upper parts, and nearly naked below; its colour was brown, like that of its parent, but did not show the nuchal band. I never saw but these two specimens. 6. MEGADERMA LYRA, Geoffr. (Lyre-nosed Bat.) A pair of this fine species were captured in an outhouse at Amoy. I have seen them of a summer's evening flying very high over the town of Amoy. 7. "PHYLLORHINA AURITA, Tomes;" P.Z.S. 1859, p. 76. (Large-eared Leaf-nose.) This Large-eared Leaf-nose is common at Amoy in May; and I have a good series of them. A smaller short-eared species I procured two of in the celebrated cave at Kelung (N. Formosa), and sent home in spirits (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 381). 8. " PHYLLORHINA SWINHOII, Peters, n. sp." (Swinhoe's Leaf. nose.) " Ph. maxima, auriculis acuminatis, apertura frontali parva, prost ferro-equino multo angustiore, foveis quatuor insigni; crure longiore ; supra fusca vel fuliginosa, collo gastrceoque " This species is of the same size as, or still larger than Ph. diadema, Geoffr. ( = Ph. insignis, Horsf.), but easily to be distinguished by the form of its upper nose-leaf, which is much narrower than the horseshoe and the middle nose-leaf. millims. " Antibrachium 84-90 Tibia 30-36 Foot 20 " A large number of these were taken in summer in a cave near Amoy. 9. " MINIOPTERUS BLEPOTIS,Temminck ;" Tomes, P.Z.S. 1858, p. 121. (Red-and-black Bat.) A very abundant species iu summer at Amoy, found in numbers |