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 leisleri in South 

 Italy, no one else has written about the Ciiiroptera 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 : — lihinolophus bihastatus, 

 Vesperugo serotinus, VespertiUo bechsteinii, Vespertilio murinus, 

 Dysopes cestoni, Plecotus auritus, and Myopterus daubentoni. From 

 this catalogue of Costa must be excepted V. bechsteini,vi\x\c\i 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 

 numberof 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. Nyctinomus ckstoni, 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 Italv, but it is 

 possible that it may be found on the Adriatic side, where so far 

 no researches have been made. 



2. Rhinolophus FERRUM-EduiNUM, Schr. 



This species is very common, and easy to find anywhere. 



3. Rhinolophus euryale. Bias. 



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 K. 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. 



^ " Vertebrati Italiaui nuovi o poco noti " : Atti Soc. Tosc. Natur. Piaa, 

 vol. iii. 1876. 

 2 ' Compendio della Fauna Italiana ' : Torino, Loescher, 1885. 



