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For Derbyshire we have the evidence of Sir Oswakl Moslej-, 

 in his ' Natural History of Tutbury,' that he received many 

 si^ecimens from " the calcareous caverns of Dovedale and Mat- 

 lock," and believed it to be dispersed over the whole of the 

 limestone districts of the county. 



In Nottinghamshire Mr. Whitaker has not met with it, but 

 Mr. J. Eay Hardy, of the Manchester Museum, informs me that 

 he picked up a dead one from the ground at Edwinstowe, in 

 Sherwood Forest, years ago, " too far gone to make a good 

 specimen." In sending me two Irish specimens he observed 

 that if these are rightly named (as they certainly are) the 

 Nottinghamshire specimen was identical with them. 



For Yorkshire we have the authority of Messrs. Eoebuck and 

 Clarkson for its occurrence in a cave at Eavestone, near Eipon 

 (see Zool. 1882, p. 186, and 1884, p. 173), and at Pateley Bridge 

 (' Naturalist,' 1886, p. 339) ; and for Cheshire, Byerley's ' Fauna 

 of Liverpool,' where we learn that one was taken at Storeton 

 Quarry, near Birkenhead, about 1834. 



Eenfrewshire apparently marks its northern limit. In Dr. 

 A. E. Young's ' Statistical Account of Eenfrewshire,' Crookston 

 Castle in that county is mentioned as a locality, but the late 

 Mr. Alston, in his ' Fauna of the West of Scotland ' (p. 7), 

 expressed his opinion that some mistake had been made in the 

 identification. 



The discovery of this Bat in Galway and Clare was referred 

 to in the editorial remarks above mentioned, and Mr. A. G. More 

 informs me that he has himself taken it in some numbers, in the 

 former county, in a cave at Coole Park, near Gort, the seat of 

 Sir W. Gregory. 



Thanks to the kindness of Mr. Eay Hardy, I am glad to be 

 able to record the occurrence of R. hipposideros in the county of 

 Kerry, namely, at Muckross, near Killarney. " Both males and 

 females were common," he writes, "flying about the old Abbey 

 by hundreds." He says : — " It was in July, 1885 : I got the 

 stable-man to let me go into the hay-loft at Mr. Herbert's 

 stables at Muckross, where they hung from the beams above in 

 great numbers. With my butterfly-net I could have taken ten 

 at one stroke, and the excrement between the joists of the floor 

 was half an inch deep ; I measured it carefully. I only got one 

 specimen of the curious parasite, Nycteribia hermanni {N. 



