ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHIROPXEKA, ETC. 177 



Bhmolophus euryale, Blasius. 



The Alps and the Pyrenees have been hitherto considered the northern 

 limit of the distribution of this species in Europe, but lately M. Lataste 

 has discovered it at Saint Paterne, a place north of the Loire.' Dr. B. L. 

 Trouessart remarks * that as M. Lataste had previously obtained specimens 

 of the same species at Vernet-les-Bains (Pyrenees Orientales) it may be 

 fairly supposed that it is distributed in greater or less abundance through- 

 out N.W. and S.W. France. 



Bhinolophus lii-pfosideros, Bechst. 



The types of Bh. pusillus, Temm., in the collection of the Leyden 

 Museum, are, as I have previously remarked, undoubtedly specimens of 

 Eh. hipposideros, and I have, therefore, considered Temminck's species 

 identical with that previously described, especially as his description quite 

 agrees with the characters afforded by the types. Prof. Peters, however 

 considers ^ that I should not have been led to beUeve that the so-called 

 types are really the types, and suggests that an interchange of labels may 

 have taken place, remarking that I should have attended more closely 

 to the figure of Eh. pusillus which accompanies Temminck's description. 

 To this my reply must be much the same as in the case of Eh. minor et 

 cornutus (vide supra) namely, (1) that Temminck's figures cannot be 

 depended upon ; (2) that even \iEh. pusillus, Temminck, be as defined by 

 Dr. Peters, I can only (for the reasons stated above under Eh. minor) 

 consider it a variety of Eh. minor ; and (3) that in taking the types as 

 a guide I acted only as Dr. Peters did years ago, in the case of Spix's 

 Brazilian types, and for which he deserves the thanks of every naturalist. 

 To the synonymy of this species, as given by me, should be added 

 Vespertilio mimihis, Montagu, ' Trans. Linn. Soc' 1808, p. 163. 



Ehinolophus ferrum-equinum, Schreb. 



All the known Ethiopian species of the genus are more or less related 

 to this species, agreeing with it in the low antitragus which is separated 

 from the rest of the outer margin of the ear-conch by a shallow obtuse- 

 angled notch, also in the geaeral form of the nose-leaf, in the very small 

 size of the second lower premolar (which is quite external to the tooth- 

 row, the first and third premolar being closely approximated), and more 

 or less in the closeness of the second upper premolar to the canine. It is 

 worthy of notice that no species having all these characters in common 

 has as yet been found beyond the limits of the Ethiopian and Paleearctic 

 regions.'* Of these allied Ethiopian forms I have recognised four as 

 species, namely — Eh. landeri, clivosus, capensis, and cethiops, but between 

 these and Bh. ferrum-equinum come several more or less intermediate forms 

 presenting slight differences either in the nose.leaf, in the position and 

 size of the first upper premolar, in measurements, or in the colour of the 

 fur, which I have included in the synonymy of Bh. ferrum-equinum and Eh. 



' I have to thank M. Lataste for sending me specimens of this species (and 

 of others to be referred to farther on), of which he obtained 200 individuals at the 

 above-named place. 



= Le Katuraliste, No. 16, 1879, p. 125. 



5 M. B. Akad. Berl. 1880, p. 23. 



* Bh. fcrrum-equitmm has been found in the Himalayas, but they are on the 

 boundary of the Palaearctic Region, 



1880. N 



