142 MR. K. ANDERSEN ON BATS [May 16, 
Rhinolophus HHipposideros var. typus, alpinus, et pallidus 
(partim) Koch, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau (1862-63) pp. 530— 
ol. 
Rhinolophus hipposideros (partim) Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 
1871, p. 310; Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. (1878) p. 117. 
Rhinolophus bihastatus var. Kisnyiresiensis Daday, Orvos-Term. 
Ertes. x. pt. 3 (1885) p. 274. 
Rhinolophus hipposideros var. troglophilus Daday, Magy. tud. 
Akad. Ertekez. xvi. pt. 7 (1886) p. 8, figs. 1, 2. 
Rhinolophus euryale helvetica Bretscher, Vierteljahrsschr. 
naturf. Ges. Ziirich, xlix. (1904) p. 256 f. 
Diagnosis. Large: forearm 39-41-7 mm. 
Distribution. 33 specimens have been examined, from the 
following localities :— 
Gilgit (1): forearm 39°8. Urmi, N.W. Persia (1): 39°8. Van, 
Armenia (2): 39°2-39°3. Cyprus (1): 39°64. N. Bulgaria (1): 39. 
Roumania (13): 89-41:2. Transsylvania (2): 40-41. 8. Car- 
pathians (1): 39:3. Hungary (1): 41-7. Schlangenbad (2): 
40-40-1. Strassbourg (3): 39-40°1. Thurgau and Vallais (5) : 
40°2-41°7. 
Summary of Distribution :— From the extreme N.W. Himalayas, 
through N.W. Persia and Armenia, over the whole of Central 
Europe N. of the Balkans and the Alps. 
27c. RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDERUS MINUTUS Montagu. 
Vespertilio minutus Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. (1808) 
p. 162, pl. 18. figs. 7-8. 
Diagnosis. Forearm 36°3--39 mm. 
Details. English and Irish individuals of 2h. hipposiderus differ 
from the Central European form in being on an average (and 
nearly always also absolutely) smaller. The length of the forearm 
yavies, in 30 adult specimens from England, Wales and Ireland, 
between 36°3 and 39 mm., the average being 37:6. In other 
words: the average size of the British race is considerably below 
the minimum of the typical form, and almost exactly like maximum 
of Rh. h. minimus. 
Distribution. England, Wales, Ireland §. 
Technical name. Till the close of the 18th century, the two 
Bats now called Rh. ferrwm-equinum and Lh. hipposiderus were 
** Koch’s “varieties” are scarcely determinable, his descriptions being utterly vague 
and based upon such characters as are subject to individual variation or dependent 
on age: var. typus and alpinus belong, probably, to the Central Muropean form ; 
var. pallidus seems to be a mixture of this and the southern race. 
+ A glance at the measurements in Bretscher’s paper is sufficient to show that 
what he takes to be “eine ausgesprochene Lokalform ” of Rh. ewryale is an ordinary, 
typical Rh. hipposiderus ! 
+ Lought perhaps to mention that this example, the only typical hipposiderus T have 
seen from Cyprus, is a dealer’s specimen; a Cyprus series collected and presented by 
Miss Dorothy M. A. Bate (cf P. Z.S. 1908, ii. p. 342) are unquestionably of the 
Mediterranean form. 
§ For details, cf. J. E. Kelsall, “The Distribution in Great Britain of the Lesser 
Horse-shoe Bat,” The Zoologist, xlv. (1887) p. 89. 
