Mr. K. Andersen on African Rliinoloplii. 451 



LXir. — On von Heuglin's, RUppelVs, and SundevaWs Types of 

 African Rhinolophi. By Knud Andersen. 



Owing to the most obliging kindness of Professor Dr. Kurt 

 Lampert, Royal Natural History Cabinet, Stuttgart, Dr. 

 Fritz Roemer, Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt-a.-M,, and 

 Professor Dr. Ejnar Lounberg, Riksmuseum, Stockholm, I 

 have had the opportunity of examining the types of von 

 Heuglin's Rhinolophus macrocephalus, acrotis, and minimus, of 

 RiippelPs Rh. fumigatus, and of SundevalFs Rh. auritus. In 

 returning my sincere thanks to the above-named Directors 

 and Keepers of Continental Museums I, in the following, 

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



Rhinolophus fumigatus, macrocephalus, and Antinorii. 



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

 mens, adult individuals) preserved in the Frankfurt Museum, 

 labelled '^ Schoa in Abyssinien ; 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- 

 eguinuin but for two small points of difference : Rh. fumigatus 

 was stated to have the posterior connecting-process still 

 shorter and the base of the hairs of the underside dull brown 

 C dunkelbraun '') . Dobson § put the name down as a syno- 

 nym to Rh. ferrum-equinum. 



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

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

 V. Heuglin ; 1863.''^ Dobson T[ regarded this bat as " a small 

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



* Riippell, " Beschreibung mebrerer neuer Siiugethiere, in der zoolo- 

 gischen Samwilung dei- Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellscliaft 

 befindlich," Mus. Senck. iii. (1842) p. 132 (conf. also p. lo5). 



t This is the specimen referred to by Suudevall as *' ab ipso Riippelio 

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

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



X Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1866, pp. 17-18; conf. also op. cit. 1871, 

 p. 311 ; and C. von der Decken, ' Reisen in Ost-Afrika,' iii. 1 (1809), Taf. ii. 

 lig.3. 



§ Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. (187S) p. 119. 



II Von Heuglin, ' Reise in Nordust-Afrika,' ii. (1877) pp. 22-23. 



^ Dobson, " Report on Accessions to our Knowledge of the Chiroptera 

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



