jMr. K. Aiiilrr.'jon on African Rliinoloplii. 451 



LXTI. — On von IJcnt/Iin's, RiippcWs, and Sundevall's Types of 

 African llhiuolophi. By Knud Andersen. 



OwiNo to the most obliging kindness of Professor Dr. Kurt 

 Lampert, Royal Natural History Cabinet, Stuttgart, Dr. 

 Fritz Koemcr, Museum Scnckeubcrg, Frankfurt-a.-M., and 

 Professor Dr. Ejuar Louuberg, Riksmuscum, Stockholm, I 

 have had the opportunity of examining the types of von 

 Heuglin's R/iino/ophus macrocephalus, acrotis, and minimus, of 

 RiippelTs Rh. fnmigatus, and of Sundevall's Rh. auritus. In 

 returning my sincere thanks to the above-named Directors 

 and Keepers of Continental IMuscums T, in the following, 

 give a summary of the results at which I have arrived. 



Rhinolophus funiigatus, macrocephalus, and Antinorii. 



Rh.fumigaius*. — There are two cotypes (mounted speci- 

 mens, adult individuals) preserved in the Frankfurt Museum, 

 labelled " Schoa in Aljyssinicn ; Geschenk von Dr. Riippell, 

 1841; No.II. F.7.a&6." Besides these specimens I have had 

 for examination, through the generosity of Prof. Lonnberg, 

 a beautifully mounted topotype from the collection of 

 the Stockholm Museum f. Peters J, who examined one of 

 the cotypes (no doubt that specimen which still, on the back 

 of the wooden block, bears the words '' 29 Decbr. 1865, 

 Berlin,^' written in pencil), found it exactly like Rh. ferrum- 

 eqidnum but for two small points of difference : Rh. fumiyatas 

 was stated to have the posterior connecting- process still 

 shorter and the base of the hairs of the underside dull l)rowu 

 (" dunkelbraun "). Dobson § put the name down as a syno- 

 nym to Rh. ferrum-equinuni. 



Rh. macrocephalus ||. — Two cotypes (in alcohol) preserved 

 in the Stuttgart Museum, labelled " No. 1059 ; Abyssinien, 

 V. Heuglin ; 1863.-'^ Dobson ^ regarded this bat as " a small 

 form of Rh. ferrum-equinum with dark coloured fur." 



* Kuppell, " Bescluvibung mehrerer neuor Siiiigethiere, in der zoolo- 

 giscbeu ^aminlung der Senckenbergiochen naturforschendon Gesellschaft 

 beiiudlich," Mus. 8enck. iii. (1842) p. 132 (conf. also p. \')'>). 



t Tbis is tlie specimen referred to by Sundevall as " ab ipso Riippelio 

 missus" (Kgl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. HandL, new series, vok ii. pt. 2, no. 10 

 (1858), p. 13). It is labelled " Mam. Ex. no. 1594." 



X Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 18G0, pp. 17-18; conf. also op. cif. 187], 

 p. 311 ; and C. von der Decken, ' Reisen in Ost-Afrika,' iii. 1 {18oil), Taf. ii. 

 tig. 3. 



§ Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. :\Ius. (1878) p. 119. 



II Von Ileuglin, ' Reise in Nord.ist-Afrika,' ii. (1877) pp. 22-23. 



il Dobson, " Report on Accessions to our Knowledge ot the Chiroptera 

 during the past two years (1878-80)," Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1880, p. 10. 



