Rhinolophus trifoliatus

Dobson, George Edward, 1878, Rhinolophus, Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum, London: British Museum, pp. 100-122 : 106

3. Rhinolophus trifoliatus .

Rhinolophus trifoliatus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal , ii. p. 27, pl. 3; Haffner, Suppl. Schreb. Säugeth. v. p. 663; Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 4 (1876).

Aquias trifoliata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 7; 1866, p. 81.

Very similar to R. luctus in structure and even in the colour and length of the fur; distinguished by its smaller size and by the sub ­ acute summit of the anteriorly flattened vertical process of the central nose-leaf, which in R. luctus is truncate (Plate VII. fig. 3). The free edge of the interfemoral membrane is straight; and the tip of the tail abruptly projects.

Length, head and body 2"‘3, tail 1"' 3, ear 1", nose-leaf O' '-75x O''-45, forearm 2”, thumb O''-3, third finger 3"-15, fifth finger 2''-85, tibia 0"'95, foot 0,,-5.

Hab. India (eastern coast), Java, Borneo.

Type in the collection of the Leyden Museum.

Rhinolophus luctus and R. trifoliatus were placed by Dr. J. E. Gray in a separate subgenus Aquias— on insufficient grounds how ­ ever; for the form of the nose-leaf in these species differs only in the greater development of its parts, not in any important structure, from that of most species of this genus. As well might they have been separated on account of the remarkable length of the fur of the body.

On the same principle the subgenus Phyllotis, Gray , was formed for the reception of Rhinolophus philippinensis, Waterhouse (vide infra, p. 107), with which R. mitratus, Blyth , should necessarily be placed.

a. ♂ ad.,al. North Borneo.

b. ad. sk. N.W. Borneo.

c. ♂ ad., al. Matang. Purchased.

d. ad. sk. No history.