Chasen_1936.pdf

New and Noteworthy Bat ttomt:he Malay Peninsula By F.}\," CHASEN ipposider pend eo Itryi sp. nov. In a 'limestone cave in Peninsular jam, :vJ:r. H. 1\f. Pendl bury found two forms of flipposid ros hring si· e by sl e and appearing to differ in no essential except siz • Tl e large' [ann vith the forearm, measuring 89-9 rom. is Hipposidej'os armiue7' ~bilis And., but the smaller foun with the forearm measuring 79.5 nun. in a male and 7~ rnm, in Mus. 12., l1J36. F. N. CH' E female seems to be without a name. I naveherefQre, provided One above. Fourth. supplemen a.ry leaflet liable. Type.-AdL11t male (in alcohol, collected in. acave nearths 'oat of hao Ram, Nakon Sri Tamarat, Penlnsular Siam, 3rd a ar h, 1':2 Raffles Iuseum 1. o. '198. Bxternal 1n.easur'ement-s.-Forearm •. '"'"9.5ear, 19 X 24; 10 ser leg with oat (c.u.), 9; tail, 57 .mm, Skldl.-Greatest length to front of C' nine" 2"".2; zygomatic breadth, 15.2; 'mastoid brea he; 13.3 t front of canine to back of rn 3 10.2 mm, Spec-im-ens examined.-Three, from the t)--pe-)O~ ity, Remarks,-Hlppos-ideros turpis Allen" from the 0 th Lin Kiu Islands is another minia ure copy of armiger. Thirteen specimens have the f rearms measuring 67.2-11.7 rrnn, in. length (/i s ndersen, Ann. Mag:. a. Hist. (7) xvii, '906, p. 4 ). HipIlosideTOiS lylei Thos, Hippoflidenr8 yei Thos..,. Ann. ]'1a.g. 'at. H' t (8) XI, 1913 p. 8 50milesnorth 0 Chi~ grnai, North Siam). In August 935. Mr. f. \ . F. T eedle obtained aeries of thi ba hitherto .known only rom the type locality and t e North Shan States in a limeston cave a Bukit Chintamani, near Bentong, Pahaag, 1IilaJay state '. Thirteen males (forearms 77.5-31.5 mm.) have enermous .'eshy expanaions on either side of the frontal sue exactly like those shewn in Osgood's figures. of Hipposi.deroiJ pratti ( ield Mus. Nat. Hist, Zool,• .L VI I, 1932 p. 223). In one male the growth ts much smaller; the skull in icates tha the animal is a nlt, In four females (forearms, 7 ,50 rnm.) the expansion is even. less marke-d. ,fegaderma lyra Geoff, Among: ome speclmens of the common M U'.lae-rma spas-)Ua taken in a house <it Taiping Perak, 1'faiay States, on 15 h March, 1927 by t. G, Hope Sworder is a male of Megaaemw l1fTa. It provides 11 fi . satlsfac ory record of the species for Ialaysia, The forearm measures 67 mm. Th~ forea-rms o.fa few Indian specimens measured in the Bri ish Iuseum (where thar is " sk' n col) ted by Lyle in Chiengmai orth, Siam) rang, f om 4.5 t 71.-5 rom. but no close comparison 0 the Perak examp e a topotypes has been possible. (134J