NEW RECORDS OF BATS FROM SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA, WITH TAXONOMIC NOTES By J. E. HILL INTRODUCTION BATS from Malaya, Java and Sulawesi (Celebes) identified in recent years at the British Museum (Natural History) have included specimens representing a number of poorly known species and thereby of taxonomic interest and importance, or which provide further distributional records. The majority of the Malayan specimens have come to London through the agency of Lord Medway and were collected by him or by Mr G. C. Yong. A further interesting specimen from Malaya has been provided by Dr D. R. Wells of the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Malaya. The Indonesian specimens are from a collection submitted for identifica-tion by Captain P. F. D. Van Peenen, M.C., U.S.N., Officer in Charge, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, Djakarta Detachment. My thanks are due also to Dr G. G. Musser and Dr Karl F. Koopman of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, who waived a prior claim to the Sulawesian specimens, and to Dr H. W. Setzer of the United States National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, who arranged the loan of one of the specimens discussed. Measurements are in millimetres : unless otherwise indicated, the specimens have been donated to the collections of the British Museum (Natural History). SYSTEMATIC SECTION ^ Chironax (?) melanocephalus (Temminck, 1825) Sulawesi : Soroako, south Sulawesi. $ (young adult) B.M. 73.1802. Chironax has been unreported hitherto from Sulawesi. This young adult specimen differs in a number of features from Malayan material referred to C. melanocephalus and apparently also in some ways from Javan specimens, of which none is available for comparison. Consequently, it is referred to C. melanocephalus with considerable hesitation. This Sulawesian specimen lacks the distinctive blackish cap usually characteristic of Chironax although the nape and crown are darker brown than the back which is warm brown, tinged with grey over the shoulders. The throat and the sides of the neck are creamy white, the belly yellowish white and the flanks brown, this colour extending across the hinder part of the ventrum. In colour the specimen agrees quite well with the original description by Temminck (1825 : 190) of specimens from Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.) 27, 2 7
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