250 RHINOLOPHIDvE— RHINOLOPHUS 



THE LESSER HORSESHOE BAT. 



RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS (Bechstein). 

 RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS MINUTUS (Montagu). 



1760. Le Fer-a-cheval, L. J. M. Daubenton in E. L. le Clerc, Comte de Buffon's 



Histoire Naturelle,\n\., 131-133, pi. xx., figs, i and 2 ; also, Man. de VAcad. Roy. 



des Set., m, 382, pi. XV., fig. 4, 1759, published 1765 ; described from France. 

 1774. Vespertilio ferrum-equinum (in part), J. C. D. von Schreber, Die 



Siiugthiere, i., pi. Ixii., two lower figures, 174, 190; evidently naming Daubenton's 



Le Fer-a-cheval; Montagu, Transactions Linnean Sac. (London), ix., 162, 1808; 



Bingley ; Clermont. 

 1776. Vespertilio equinus (in part), P. L. S. Miiller, Naiursystems Supplements 



und Register Band, 20. 

 1785. Vespertilio ungula (in part), P. Boddaert, Elenchus Animalium, i., 71 ; 



renaming Schreber's V. ferruin-equinum. 

 1788. Vespertilio ferrum-equinum, ^. minor, J. F. Gmelin, Sy sterna Naturae., i., 50. 

 1792. Vespertilio ferrum equinum minor, Robert Kerr, Animal Kingdom., 99 



(not V. molossus minor of Kerr, op. cit, 97) ; described from France. 



1797. NOCTILIO HIPPOSIDEROS, J. M. Bechstein, Der Zoologe, I., i.-viii., 65. 



1798. Vespertilio hippocrepis (in part), F. von P. Schrank, Fauna Boica, i., 64. 

 1800. Vespertilio hipposideros, J. M. Bechstein, in Thomas Pennant's Allgemeine 



Uebersicht der vierfiissigen Thiere, ii., 629 footnote, see also 615 and 736; 

 Donovan. 



1803. RHINOLOPHUS MINOR, Etienne Geoffroy, Catalogue Mammiferes Mus. d'Hist. 

 Nat. (Paris), 57 ; described from Paris. 



1804. Vespertilio (? Rhinolophus) hippocrepis, Johannes Hermann, Observa- 

 tiones Zoologicae, 18. 



1808. Vespertilio minutus, George Montagu, Trans. Linnean Soc. (London), ix., 

 163, etc.; described from Devonshire, England; Pennant, ed. of 1812, 181, i., 

 pi. xiv., figs. 3 and 4. 



1813. Rhinolophus bi-hastatus, Isidore Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat., 

 XX., 259 ; renaming Daubenton's Le petit Fer-a-cheval. 



1816. Phvllorhina minuta, W. E. Leach, Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens 

 of The Indigenous Mamtnalia and Birds that are Preserved in The British Museum, 

 etc. (London), i ; named, without description, from Torquay, Devon. 



1817. Rhinolophus hipposideros, W. E. Leach, Zoological Miscella7iy, iii., 2, sp. 2, 

 pi. 121, et pltcrimorum auctorum. 



1829. Rhinolophus bifer, Jakob Kaup, System der Europdische Thierwelt, i. 104 ; 



without description, hence a nomen nudum. 

 1862-63. Rhinolophus hipposideros, var. typus, alpinus, et pallidus (in part), 



Carl Koch, fahrbilcher des Vereins fiir Naturkunde ijn Herzogthum (Nassau), 530- 



531 ; described vaguely and "scarcely determinable" (Andersen). 

 1885. Rhinolophus bihastatus, var. kisnyiresiensis, Daday Jeno, Orvos- 



Termeszettudomdnyi Ertesito, etc., x, (3), 274 ; described from Kis-Nyires, Trans- 



sylvania. 



