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about two-tliirds that of //('- ; lower molars with protoconid 

 noticeably higher than the other cusps, the posterior triangle 

 slightly the wider of the two in m,^ and lu.^, a little the narrower 

 in m^ ; behind entoconid the cingvdum forms a minute though 

 evident accessory cusp. 



Bemarks. — Among the leaf-nosed bats of Europe this species 

 is easily recognizable by its large size taken in connection with 

 the low, rounded upper margin of the connecting process of sella. 

 In B. meliehji, which approaches it in size, the connecting process 

 is sharply pointed above. Two geographical races ai'e known, one 

 occupying the Continental range of the species, tlie other confined 

 to Great Britain. 



Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum februm-equinum Schreber. 



1774. Vcspertilio fcrntm-cqiiimtm Sclireber, Siiugthiere, i, pi. lxii, upper 



figures ; description, i, p. 174 under name : Die Hufeisennase 



(part). Prance ; based primarily on Daubeuton. 

 177G. Vcspertilio equinus P. L. S. Miiller. Natursyst. Suppl. u, Kegist.- 



Band, p. 20 (part), France. 

 1779. [T'esperiiZJo] perspiciUatus Blumenbacb, Handb. d. Naturgescb., p. 75 



(part : included the leaf-nosed bats of Europe and Soutli America). 

 1785. [Vespertilio] ungula Boddaert, Elenchus Auimaliuni, i, p. 71 



(Burguud}-). 

 1792. Vcsp\crfilio] fer[fnni\-equ[inuvi] viajor Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 99 



(not 1'. molossus major Kerr, I.e., p. 97), Prance. 

 1798. Vespertilio hippocrcpis Sehrank, Pauna Boica, i, p. G4 (Renaming 



of fcrrum-cquinum Schreber). 

 1803. Bhinolophiis major Geoffroy, Catal. Mamm. ;\Ius. Nat. d'Hist. Nat., 



Paris, p. 50 (Burgundy). 

 1S13. Bhinolophiis unihastatus (4cofii'oy, Ann. INIns. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 



xs, p. 257 (France). 

 1829. '! Ehinolophns nnifer Kaup, Entw.-Gcscb. u. Natiirl. Syst. Europ. 



Tbierwelt, i, p. 104 (nomen nudum). 

 1857. Bhinolophus fcrrnm-cquinuni. Blasius, Siiugetliiere Deutschland.^. 



p. 31. 

 18G3. \_Bhinolvphus frrrum-cqiiiniiiiij a var. qcniiaiuciis Kocli, Jalirb. des 



Vereins fiir Naturlcunde im Herzogtlium Nassau, xviii, p. 522 



(Wiesbaden, Hesson-Nassau, Germany). 

 18G3. [Blmiolophns fcrriaii-cqiiiniim] B var. italiciis Koch, Jalirl). des 



Vereins fiir Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau, xviir, p. 523 



(Italy). 

 1878. Bldnolopihiis fvrriiin-cqiiinum Dobson, Catal. Cliiropt. Brit. Mus., 



p. 119 (part). 

 18S5. Bhinolophus ■unihastatus^ var. hoinorodahnasicnsis Daday, Orvos- 



Termeszettudomanyi Erteset(i, Kolozsvar, x, p. 274 (Homorod- 



ALmas cave, Hungary). 



1886. Bhinolophus nniliastatus var. Jiomorodalmasicnsis Daday, Verhandl. 



u. Mittheilungen des Siebenbiirgiseben Vereins fiir Naturwissensch. 

 in Hermannstadt, xxxvi, p. 79. 



1887. Bhinolophus fcrriim-cquinum var. homorodcnsis Daday, EIrtekezesek a 



Term^szettudomanyok Kor^bi'd, Budapest, xvi, pt. 7, p. IH 

 (Renaming of homorodalniasiensis). 



