Mammals / by J. Lewis Bonhote.

  • Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis James), 1875-1922.
Date:
[1903?]
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Credit: Mammals / by J. Lewis Bonhote. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    slightly narrower than the horizontal part. The connecting process behind the sella hardly rises above the vertical part of the same and is rounded off. The posterior leaf is of moderate size, the tip elongate, and the margins slightly concave. Lower lip with three vertical grooves. Wing membranes from the ankles ; interfemoral membrane nearly straight ; only the extreme tip of the tail projects. Fur moderately long, sepia brown above, lighter beneath. Dimensions of type:—Head and body, 46 mm.; Tail, 20 mm.; Forearm, 41 mm. ; Ear (from base of antitragus to tip), 14 mm. ; Tibia, 16 mm. ; Greatest width of horseshoe, 8 mm.; Length from tip of posterior leaf to anterior edge of horseshoe, 13 mm. ; Total expanse, 227 mm. Habitat. Biserat, Jalor. Type. Adult female in spirit collected on the 8 th August, 1901. There are some specimens in the British Museum collected by Signor L. Fea in the Karin Hills, Burmah, and recorded by Thomas,1 under the name R. a finis rouxi1 (Temm.) These specimens, though slightly larger and somewhat more rufous in body colour, belong undoubtedly to the species just described, or are, at most, only subspecifically distinct. As regards the name rouxi, Temminck states that it is a bat similar in all respects to R. affinis, and gives the length of the forearm as 4 1 pouce, 10 lignes,’ or 50 mm. Horse- field’s type from Java has a forearm of 49*5 mm. ; there can, therefore, be little doubt that Temminck’s rouxi is a synonym of affinis. The present species may be at once distinguished from R. affinis by its smaller size, and from R. minor by the shape of the connecting process between the sella and the posterior leaf, which, in this latter species, ends in a point well above the vertical portion of the sella. < Rhinolophus spadix, Mill. (Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 111, p. 136 (1901)) from Sirhassen Id. is closely allied to this species. 25. Rhinolophus minor, Horsf. Rhinolophus minor, Horsfield, Zool. Res. Java (1824) ; Flower, PZ.S. 1900, P* 342. 2 spms. in ale. Biserat, Jalor. 8th August, 1901. 26. Hipposiderus armiger, (Hodg-s.) Rhinolophus armiger, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. iv, p. 699 (1835). Hipposiderus armiger (Hodgs.), Flower, P.Z.S. 1900, p. 342 ; Bonhote, loc. cit., p. 875. a. ad. Biserat, Jalor. 1. Thomas, Viaggio di Leonardo Fea, p. 15, Genoa, 1892. 2. Temminck, Mon. Mamm. II, p. 306 (1835).
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