CHIROTTERI DI LIGURIA 443 
Per stabilire con esattezza che cosa realmente fossero i Ve- 
spertilio Savit e V. Bonapartit dell’ Iconografia Italica era innanzi 
tutto necessario scoprire i tipi del Bonaparte stesso, giacchè le 
sue descrizioni incomplete e le sue inesatte illustrazioni non 
permettevano di farsene un giusto criterio. Dove sieno andati 
questi tipi ce lo annunzia F. R. Tomes nei Proceedings della So- 
cietà Zoologica di Londra, 1858, p. 81, ove parlando del V. emargi- 
natus di Geoffroy, ci dice: « The specimen of V. emarginatus, which 
» formed part of the italian collection of the late Prince Bona- 
» parte, having been presented by him to me during a stay in 
» Paris in the spring of 1857, I am enabled to correct an error. 
Me n E sotto a questo periodo vi è la nota seguente: 
« It may not be amiss to record here the exact condition of 
» the specimens of Chiroptera presented by Prince Bonaparte, 
» because they are the types of his descriptions in the Fauna Ita- 
» tica. The species which I received were as follow: — Ve- 
» spertilio emarginatus, V. Aristippe, V. pipistrellus, V. Cappa- 
» cin, V. miniopteris (sic), V. Ursinti (sic), Noctula leucippe, Pipi- 
» strellus Savii?, P. noctula, P. alcythoe, Plecotus auritus, and 
» Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum, the names here given being 
» those attached to the specimens. It appears that they had 
» been prepared as skeletons, with the membranes and ears 
» left attached, and had then been expanded on pieces of card- 
» board and warnished, the skin and fur having been also at- 
» tached to the card. In this state they had been placed in a 
» portfolio prepared for their reception, which previously to 
» passing into my hands had been subjected to sufficient pres- 
» sure to crush and very much injure the specimens, the cru- 
» shed parts being in some of them lost ». 
Dieci anni dopo la nota del Tomes, quando nel 1868 io sco- 
priva nei dintorni di Genova l’esistenza di un Vesperugo che 
subito riportai al V. mawrus del Blasius, non conoscevo ancora 
i tipi del Museo di Pisa, quegli stessi che servirono molti anni 
dopo ai Major per dilucidare |’ intricata quistione. Nell’ estate 
dello stesso anno recatomi a Pisa ebbi agio di osservarli in- 
sieme al prof. Paolo Savi di venerata memoria e di farne un. 
