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which has preserved the tail of the eastern races (¢f. also its 
geographical habitat); the horse-shoe is remarkably narrow. 
The skull very small and slender; the nasal swellings narrow. 
(2) Compared with obscurus: Larger, but proportionately with 
narrower horse-shoe. The skull is even smaller and more slender 
than in any individual of obscwrus I have seen. 
(3) Compared with the eastern races: The small size, combined 
with the very small horse-shoe, distinguishes it sufficiently. The 
skull is smaller and, especially, more slender, the nasal swellings 
narrower, than in any of the eastern forms. 
Dentition (one skull). p, and p” present. Cingula of the upper 
canine and p‘ overlapping. ‘This dentition is more in accordance 
with that of the typical ferruwm-equinwm than that of regulus, 
showing the “western” character of proximus (notwithstanding 
the short tail), a conclusion borne out by the general external 
aspect of this Bat, and the size of the skull and the tooth-rows. 
Type. 9 ad. (in alcohol). Gilgit. Presented by Dr. J. Scully. 
Brit. Mus. no. 81.3.1.10. 
14 ¢. RHINOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM Schreb., TYPICUS. 
Le fer-a-cheval Daubenton, Mém. Acad. Rov: Sci. Belg. 1759, 
pp. 377, 382, pl. 15. fig. 4. 
Vespertilio Ferrum equinwm (partim) Schreber, Siiugthiere, 1. 
(1775) pp. 174, 188, pl. 62 (the two upper figures). 
Vespertilio equinus (partim) P. L. 8S. Miiller, Natursyst., Suppl. 
(1776) p. 20. 
oe Ungula (partim) Boddaert, Elenchus animalium, i. 
GU7S5) ape Gl 
Vespertilio Ferrum equinum, a. major Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. 
. (1788) p. 50. 
Vespertilio Hippocrepis (paxtim) Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. (1798) 
. 64. 
Lthinolophus uni-hastatus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Descr. de 
VEgypte, ii. (1812) p. 132; id., Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. xx, (1813) 
. 257, pl. 5. 
Rhinolophus JSerrum-equinum var. germanicus et var. téalicus 
Koch, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau, 1862-63, pp. 522, 523 * 
Phinolopha s ferrum-equinum (partim) Peter s, MB. Akad. Berlin, 
1871, p. 810; Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. (1878) p. 119. 
Rhinolophus libanoticus, conchifer, et rufescens ‘ Khrbg, et 
Lichtst. Mspt.” Peters, loc. cit. (1871) (nomina nuda). 
Diagnosis. Size moderate, horse-shoe rather narrow, tail long. 
Skull rather small and slender, with narrow nasal swellings and 
short tooth-rows. 
** Koch’s two “varieties” of ferrum-equinum must have been based on too small 
a material, or there must be some mistake in his statements. That individuals 
from S. Europe, é. e., Europe 8. of the Alps (his “ var. italicus”’), should, generally 
speaking, be larger than those from Europe N. of the Alps (his “var. germanicus”’), 
is at all events not correct. The statement that var. germanicus is “iiber den 
tticken mehr braungrau oder aschgrau gefarbt,” whereas var. italicus “stets in das 
Rothliche neigt,”’ raises the suspicion whether Koch has not compared immature 
individuals from Germany with fully adults from Italy. 
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