94 DR. MONTICELLI ON SOUTH ITALIAN CHIROPTERA. [Feb. 2 
Chiroptera of the kingdom of Naples; but after him, excepting 
Major ', who announced the discovery of Vesperugo Jeisleri in South 
Italy, no one else has written about the Chiroptera of this country. 
Quite recently, however, Camerano and Lessona* have given notices 
of some of the Southern species. Prof. Costa’s work in 1839 
enumerates the following species:—hinolophus bihastatus, 
Vesperugo serotinus, Vespertilio bechsteinii, Vespertilio murinus, 
Dysopes cestoni, Plecotus auritus, and Myopterus daubentoni. From 
this catalogue of Costa must be excepted V. bechsteini, which I have 
not yet met with, and Myopterus daubentoni, which is not a European 
species ; but there are to be added thirteen other species, so that the 
number of Chiroptera of South Italy now consists of at least eighteen 
species. Amongst the thirteen species to be added to the catalogue of 
Costa there are many very important as regards the geographical 
distribution of the different species in Italy ; such as Synotus barba- 
stellus, which so far has only been found in Northern Italy ; and also 
a species altogether new to Italy, which I have recently described as 
Vespertilio oxygnathus. 
I am preparing descriptions, carefully compiled, of all the South- 
Italian Chiroptera ; but for the present I give this preliminary cata- 
logue of them, with indications of the localities where they are found. 
1. Nycrrnomus CESTONI, Savi. 
This species does not seem to be common in the South, but it is 
not rare at Naples. I have not been able to procure specimens 
from other points of the Mediterranean side of Italy, but it is 
possible that it may be found on the Adriatic side, where so far 
no researches have been made. 
2. RHINOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM, Schr. 
This species is very common, and easy to find anywhere. 
3. RHINOLOPHUS EURYALE, Blas. 
Although Camerano and Lessona say this species is less common 
than the preceding, and is found particularly in North Italy, I have 
also found it equally distributed in South Italy. 
4. RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS, Bechst. 
Less common than the preceding, but not rare. I have not met 
with R. blasii, Peters, although Blasius says that he found it in 
Middle and Southern Italy and Sicily, and Camerano obtained it in 
Sardinia. 
5. MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSI, Natt. 
Very common throughout the whole of South Italy. 
1 “Vertebrati Italiani nuovi o poco noti”: Atti Soc. Tose. Natur. Pisa, 
vol. iii. 1876. 
2 *Compendio della Fauna Italiana’: Torino, Loescher, 1885. 
