27 b. Rhinolophus hipposiderus Bechst ., typicus.

Vespertilio Ferrum equinum (partim) Schreber, Säugthiere, i. (1775) pp. 174, 188, pl. 62 (lower fig. only).

Vespertilio equinus (partim) P. L. S. Müller, Natursvst., Suppl. (1776) p. 20.

Vespertilio Ferrum equinum, ss. minor, Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (1788) p. 50.

Vespertilio Hippocrepis (partim) Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. (1798) p. 64.

Vespertilio Hipposideros Bechstein, in Pennant’s Allg. Uebers. vierfüss. Thiere, ii. (1800) p. 629, footnote (compare also pp. 615 and 736).

Vespertilio hippocrepis Hermann, Obs. Zool. (1804) p. 18.

Rhinolophus bi-hastatus Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Descr. de l’Égypte, ii. (1812) p. 132; id., Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. xx. (1813) p. 259, pl. 5.

* For the loan of this specimen I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Kurt Lampert, Director of the Royal Natural History Cabinet, Stuttgart. The type is a young, but apparently fullgrown, individual. AU other examples of hipposiderus, of allraces, of which I give the measurements, are fully adult (distal epiphyses of metacarpals ossified).

■ f As I have seen only one example from Spain, I may mention that of the whole series examined by Cabrera Latorre, for his “Quirópteros de Espana, ” no Spanish specimen had the forearm more than 37'5 mm. (Mem. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. ii. (1904') p. 252). I am unacquainted with the Rh. phasma (allied to hipposiderus) described by Cabrera in the same paper.

Rhinolophus Hipposideros var. typus, alpinus, et pallidus (partim) Koch, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau (1862-63) pp. 530- 3 *.

Rhinolophus hipposideros (partim) Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1871, p. 310; Dobson, Cat. Ohir. Brit. Mus. (1878) p. 117.

Rhinolophus bihastatus var. Kisnyiresiensis Daclay, Orvos-Term. Értes. X. pt. 3 (1885) p. 274.

Rhinolophus hipposideros var. troglophilus Daday, Magy. tud. Akad. Értekez. xvi. pt. 7 (1886) p. 8, figs., 2.

Rhinolophus euryale helvetica Bretscher, Vierteljahrssc.hr. naturi. Ges. Zürich, xlix. (1904) p. 256 f.

Diagnosis. Large: forearm 39-41'7 mm.

Distribution. 33 specimens have been examined, from the following localities:—

Gilgit (1): forearm 39'8. Unni, N.W. Persia (1): 39'8. Van, Armenia (2): 39'2-39'3. Cyprus (1): 39'6$. N. Bulgaria (1): 39. Roumania (13): 39-41'2. Transsylvania (2): 40-41. S. Car­ pathians (1): 39'3. Hungary (1): 41'7. Schlangenbad (2): 40-40T. Strassbourg (3): 39-40'1. Thurgau and Vai lais (5): 40'2-41'7.

Summary of Distribution: — From the extreme N.W. Himalayas, through N.W. Persia and Armenia, over the whole of Central ö Kfl I ■ _ Jflj fl 11. |MflM^^fl| BK Europe N. of the Balkans and the Alps.