| Three hitherto unpublished specimens of Hipposidéros larvátus (HORSFIELD, 1824) from the Island of Nias (off Sumatra’s West Coast), and one specimen of the same species from the Island of Sumba (ESE of Java) led us to a critical study of the subgeneric ”spéoris-group” of this genus of horseshoe bats. The taxonomical history of the genus Hipposideros Gray, 1831 is resumed (§ 1). The original picture of H. speoris (Schneider, 1800), under the name Vespertilio speoris was easily found in several libraries. The accompanying text, however, proved to be extremely rare. Thanks to the kind help of Dr van Deursen of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, we can give here the original text (§ 2) of which the date is discussed. The type locality of this... |
