Note 170 — Chapter III · SUB-ORDER II.—MICROCHIROPTERA, OR INSECTIVOROUS BATS. HORSESHOE BATS AND MEGADERMS.

The commonest of the numerous Eastern species of the genus are Pearson’s Horseshoe Bat (R. Pearsonii), which has a very large nose-leaf and greatly developed ear lobes, and is found throughout the lofty hill-countries from the Himalayas to the mountains of Burmah and China; Roux’s Horseshoe Bat (R. affinis), which varies in colour from orange-brown to greyish-brown, and is found among the hills all over India, and in Ceylon, Burmah, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo; and the Dwarf Horseshoe Bat (R. minor), only about one inch and three-quarters in length, which occurs in Burmah, Yunnan, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Japan. Several varieties of the last two species have been described as distinct forms.