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HHINOLOPHID^E. 



CHEIROPTERA. 



RHINOLOPHIDJI. 



LESSER HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



Rhinolophus hipposideros. 



Specific character. Posterior nasal appendage lanceolate, without lateral 

 expansions at the base : ears, deeply sinuous at the outer margins ; the trans- 

 verse sulci obsolete. 



Vespertilio ferrum-equinum, /3, GMEL. LINN. 50. 



, , minutus, 

 , , hipposideros, 



Noctilio, 



Rhinolophus bihastatus, 



hippocrepis, 



Petit Fer-a-Cheval, 



MONTAGU, Linn. Trans, ix. p. 163. 



BECHSTEIN. 



NATURG. Deutsch. p. 1194. 



GEOFF. Ann. Mus. xx. p. 259, t. v. DESMAR. 



Mamm. p. 125, sp. 185. GRAY, Zool. Journ. 



ii. p. 109. 

 LEACH, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 2, t. cxxi. FLEM. 



Brit. An. p. 5. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 20. 



BLASIUS, Faun. Deutsch. i. p. 29. 

 HERM. Observ. Zool. p. 18. 

 DAUBENT. BTJFFON, Hist. Nat. viii. p. 131, 



t. xvii. f. 2. 



THIS species was long considered as merely a variety 

 of the Greater Horse-shoe Bat. Gmelin gives it as 



