Rhinolophus affinis Horsf.

Andersen, Knud, 1905, On some Bats of the Genus Rhinolophus, with Remarks on their Mutual Affinities, and Descriptions of Twenty-six new Forms., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2, pp. 75-145 : 104-106

13f.. Rhinolophus affinis Horsf. , typicus.

Rhinolophus affinis Horsf., Zool. Res. Java (1824) , pl. [7], figs. A, B.

Rhinolophus affinis (partim) Peters,. s. c. (1871); Dobson,. s. c. (1878).

I am unable to give a definite diagnosis of this, the “ typical, ” form of Rh. affinis , having seen only one very old skin (the type) and a fragment of the skull, representing the facial portion and the tooth-rows. But these are sufficient to show, first of all, of course, the specific characters (pandurate sella, lengthened III.2, dentition, &c.); secondly, that this form is quite different from any of its next neighbours, on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula (superans), on the N. Natunas (nesites), or on Lombok (yjHnce /Js). The horse-shoe seems, allowing for some shrinkage, to be quite as narrow as in Rh. a. himalayanus; the nasal swellings, too, are as narrow as in himalayanus and tener. But, although the

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specimen is slightly smaller than the smallest example of himcilayawus I have seen, the tibia is fully as long as (if anything, a trifle longer) than in the very largest of these latter. On the whole, I have but very little doubt that Rh. a. typicus will prove to be much more closely related to the Burmese and Himalayan forms than to any of the others. This would be an additional evidence of the closer connection between the fauna of Java and that of Indo-China and the Himalayas—closer than between Java and the geographically nearer Sumatra, Malacca, and Borneo.

Distribution. Java.