L. Forró szerk.: Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 7. 1992 (Budapest, 1992)

Topál, Gy.; Csorba, G.: The subspecific division of Rhinolophus luctus Temminck, 1835, and the taxonomic status of R. beddomei Andersen, 1905 (Mammalia, Chiroptera)

Specimen with registration no. 70.1463. from Centra] Thailand in the BNHM was identified as R. I. pemiger, however, according to J.E. Hill's notes on its label made in 1974 "pemiger but small and tends to morio". Another specimen (73.2310.) from N. Thailand was identified as R. I. pemiger with question mark on its label and placed in a box with specimens of R. I. morio. Only 14 measurements of the above mentioned three R. I. pemiger and one R. beddomei in the Bombay Natural History Society collection (BNHS) were taken with the help of a vernier caliper. Except when a skull was fragmentary, all the other specimens were measured for a total of 38 cranial and dental characters with a "Digimatic" caliper to 0.01 mm accuracy. A series of measurements, especially those of short distances and teeth were measured with the caliper under a stereomicroscope. Abbreviations of the measurements used in the paper along with explanations are as follows. C-CONDYL condylar length of skull (from front of canines to back of condyles) TOTAL-LE total length of skull (from front of canines to occiput) BASIL-LE basilar length of skull (from frontal edge of palate [without praemaxillae] to the foremost part of ventral incision between condyles) ZYG-WIDT width of skull between zygomata MAST-WID mastoid width of skull (between mastoid knobs) C-C-WIDT width of rostrum between outer margins of crown of canines M3-M3-WI width of rostrum between outer crowns of Ms UC-M3-LE crown length of upper C-M

3 PALBRI-L length of palatal bridge (without the posterior spike) COCH-DIS distance between cochleae BRCASE-W width of braincase (just above mastoid knob) BRCASE-H height of braincase (from base to top with sagittal crest) LACFOR-W width of rostrum between lacrimal foramina UC-P4-LE crown length of upper C-P

4 UM1-M3-L crown length of upper M

!-M

3 (from the anteriormost portion of parastyle of M

1 to the posteriormost edge of protocone of M

3

) UC-BLENG basal cross-sectional length of upper C UC-WIDTH basal cross-sectional width of upper C UM1-LENG antero-posterior length of upper M

1 (between parastyle and metastyle) UM1-WIDT width of upper M

1 (between lingual base of protocone and labialmost edge of mesostyle) LJP2-LENG antero-posterior crown length of upper P UP2-WIDT crown width of upper P BULLA-LE greatest length of bulla MAND-LEN length of mandible (between hindermost portion of articular process and anteriormost edge of Ii alveolus) LC-M3-LE crown length of lower C-M3 LC-P4-LE crown length of lower C-P4 row LM1-M3-L crown length of lower M1-M3 (between anterior edge of paraconid of Mi and posterior margin of hypoconulid of M?) PR-COR-H height of coronoid process (between its top and the sinus on ventral profile of mandibular body) LP4-LENG length of lower P4 (between its paraconid and hypoconulid) LP4-WIDT greatest basal width of lower P4 LP2-LENG greatest basal length of lower P2 LP2-WIDT greatest basal width of lower P2 LM1-LENG length of lower Mi (between its paraconid and hypoconulid) LM1-TA-W talonid width of lower Mi LM3-LENG length of lower M3 (between its paraconid and hypoconulid) LM3-TA-W talonid width of lower M3 INTERO-W width of interorbital constriction NAKNOB-W width of nasal knob NAKNOB-H greatest height of nasal knob (from palate to top) For the statistical analyses of the available variables the SYSTAT statistical computer programme package (Wilkinson 1990) was used.