Rhinolophus affinis princeps, K.Andersen, 1905

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 : 106

3 g. Rhinolophus affinis princeps , subsp. n.

(Plate III. fig- 13.)

Diagnosis. External characters: General size moderate; tail short; but largest in the size of the horse-shoe and ears, and the length of the tibia. Skull, nasal swellings, tooth-rows: the extreme.

Type. x ♂ ad. (in alcohol). Lombok, July 1896. Collected by A. Everett, Esq. Brit. Mus. no. 97.4.18.13.

Demarks. Placed side by side with Rh. a. himalayanus, this form is strikingly CP * / different '; the horse-shoe is no less than - 4 J- broader than the broadest in himalayanus, and the skull is distinguishable at a glance by its excessive width and the very broad nasal swellings. But it must be remembered that superans leads, not up to, but decidedly wi. the direction of, princeps, and we do not yet know the extreme limits of individual variation, either in superans or in princeps.

When considering the geographical races * of Rh. affinis from a more general point of view—and excluding “ typicus, ” owing to the peculiar geological history of Java., as well as nesites, owing to its having, probably, been influenced by somewhat exceptional conditions, far away on the small isolated N. Natunas, — the followingrule will be observed: the more southern or south-eastern the habitat, the longer the ears, the broader the horse-shoe, the longer the tibia, the larger the skull, the broader the nasal swellings, and the longer the tooth-rows.