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Show 1)8 MR. K. ANDERSEN ON BATS [May 16, (c) In Blanford's ‘ Fauna of British India ' (loc. infra cit.) Rh. petersi is recorded from Masuri and from Nilgliiri. The former statement is borrowed from Hutton's paper. The latter is based on an example collected by W. Davison in Coonoor, ilghiri*. This specimen is now in the British Museum. It is a Rh. rouxi. In short:-(1) For reasons given above I regard Dobson's Rh. petersi (1872 and 1876) as a synonym of Rh. rouxi; (2) Dobson's Rh. petersi (1878) is Rh. acuminatus', (3) Dobson's Rh. petersi (1880) is Rh. sumatranus; (4) Hutton's Rh. petersi is Rh. monticola; (5) Blanford's Rh. petersi is partly Rh. monticola (Masuri), partly Rh. rouxi (Nilghiri). Geographical races. There are, at least, two forms of Rh. rouxi, (littering in size and geographical habitat. 11 a. R hinolophus rouxi sinicus, subsp. n. Diagnosis. Skull smaller, tooth-rows shorter. Forearm 46 mm. Details. The general size is as in the very smallest examples I have seen of the typical form. Skull still a little smaller, with slenderer brain-case and shorter tooth-rows; nasal swellings, in front view, slightly lower. Colour as in the dark phase of Himalayan specimens of the typical form (see below). Measurements. On p. 100. Type. S acl. (skin). Chin Tah, Anhwei, Lower Yangtsef. Presented by W. Styan, Esq. Brit. Mus. no. 99.3.1.6. 116. R hinolophus rouxi Temm., typicus. Rhinolophus Rouxii Temminck, Mon. Mamm. ii. 8e monogr. (1835) p. 30 b. Rhinolophus rubidus, cinerascens, rammanika Kelaart, Prodr. Faunae Zeylanicte (1852), pp. 13, 14. Rhinolophus Rouxii (partim) Peters. MB. Akad. Berlin, 1871, p. 308. Rhinolophus petersii Dobson, J. A. S. B. xli. pt. ii. (1872) p. 337 (nec Dobson, 1878, 1880); Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. pt. ii. (1891) p. 275 (partim). Rhinolophus minor (non Horsf.) Hutton, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 698. Rhinolophus affinis (partim, nec Horsf.) Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. (1878) p. 113. Diagnosis. Skull larger, tooth-rows longer. Forearm 46-51‘5 mm. Colour.-(1) Specimens from Nepal and Darjeeling, (a) Dark phase: one ad.; Nepal; teeth unworn; skin:-Upper side " mars-biown " ; horse-shoe patch on back distinguishable, though somewhat obliterated ; base of hairs light " drab," almost " ecru-drab " ; under side " drab," with a tinge of " russet " ; sides of body somewhat darker. With this skin agree in colour another adult specimen from Nepal (teeth somewhat worn ; skin) and a 2 a<^ from Darjeeling (in alcohol). # Blanford, J. A . S. B. lvii. pt. ii. no. 3 (1888) p. 261. t For the exact position of this locality, see ‘ Ibis,' 1899, p. 289. |