Hipposideros ater Templeton, 1848 . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 17:252.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka, Western Prov., Colombo .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India to Malaya, through East Indies, Philippines, and New Guinea to N. Queensland, N. Northern Territory and Kimberley (N. Western Australia).

COMMENT: Formerly included in bicolor, but see Hill, 1963, Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 11: 30.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007008003001.