96 



RHINOLOPHID.E. 



CIIEirxOPTERA. 



BHlNOLOPHlDjf:. 



LESSER HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



Rhinolojjhus 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 ferruni-equinvm, /3, Gmel. Linn. 50. 



,, minutus, Montagu, Linn. Trans, ix. p. 163. 



Bechstein. 



Natukg. Deutseh. 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. Deutseh. i. p. 29. 

 Herm. Observ. Zool. p. 18. 

 Daubent. Buffon, Hist. Nat. viii. p. 131, 



t. xvii. f. 2. 



,, hipposideros, 



Noc/ilto, 



Rhinolophus hihastatus, 



hipposideros, 



, , h ippocrepis, 



Petit Fer-a-Cheval, 



This species was long considered as merely a variety 

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



