1905.] OF THE GENUS RHINOLOPHUS. 141 
The skull is markedly smaller, the nasal swellings a trifle 
narrower, the teeth slightly smaller. 
Distribution. 32 specimens examined. As it is of some interest 
to have the range of this hitherto overlooked form exact] 
determined, I subjoin a list of the localities from which I have seen 
examples, together with measurements of the forearm; it might 
perhaps lead to further investigation :— 
Keren (1, the type*): forearm 36°3. Sennar (1): 36°5. Cyprus 
(6): 34°7-37-7. Smyrna (1): 37°5. Malta (8): 36-37. Middle 
Italy (Ostia 2): 35°7-36°8. Corsica (1): 37:7. Haute Savoie and 
Geneva (2): 37°7-38. Balearic Islands (7): 36°2-37°6. Seville tT 
(1): 37-7. Morocco (Tangiers 1): 37:7. Portugal (Cintra 1): 
362. 
Summary of Distribution :—The Mediterranean Subregion, 
southeastwards to Sennar and Keren. Ee it noted: there is no 
record from Hgypt (and, very likely, it does not occur there: ¢f. 
remarks on p. 143). 
Remarks. In the whole series of Rh. hipposiderus examined 
(apart from the British specimens, of course) I have not found 
any individual which I could not easily refer either to the 
southern or the northern form. I have some reason to believe 
that in certain border districts (e.g. 8.W. Switzerland ; perhaps also 
Cyprus) the two forms occwi together, perhaps side by side, but 
intermediate examples I have never seen. They will probably be 
found. 
27 6, RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDERUS Bechst., TYPICUS. 
Vespertilio Ferrum equinum (partim) Schreber, Siugthiere, i. 
(1775) pp. 174, 188, pl. 62 (lower fig. only). 
Vespertilio equinus (partim) P. L. 8. Miller, Natursyst., Suppl. 
(1776) p. 20. 
Vespertilio Ferrum equinum, 6. minor, Gmelin, Linn, Syst. 
Nat. i. (1788) p. 50. 
Vespertilio Hippocrepis (partim) Schrank, Fauna Boica, 1. (1798) 
. 64, 
‘ Vespertilio Hipposideros Bechstein, in Pennant’s Allg. Uebers. 
vierfiiss. Thiere, 11. (1800) p. 629, footnote (compare also pp. 615 
and 736). 
Vespertilio hippocrepis Hermann, Obs. Zool. (1804) p. 18. 
Rhinolophus bi-hastatus Geoftvoy St.-Hilaire, Descr. de lKgypte, 
i. (1812) p. 132; id., Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. xx. (1813) p. 259, 
pl. 5. 
* Wor the loan of this specimen I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Kurt Lampert, Director 
of the Royal Natural History Cabinet, Stuttgart. The type is a young, but apparently 
fullgrown, individual. 4/2 other examples otf hipposiderus, of allvaces, of which I give 
the measurements, are fully adult (distal epiphyses of metacarpals ossified). 
+ As I have seen only one example frem Spain, I may mention that of the whole 
series examined by Cabrera Latorre, for his “‘Quirépteros de Espafia,’ no Spanish 
specimen had the forearm more than 37°5 mm. (Mem. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. ii. 
(1904) p. 252). IT am unacquainted with the Rh. phasma (allied to hipposiderus) 
described by Cabrera in the same paper. 
