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which has presei'ved the tail of the eastern races {cf. 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 ohscurus I have seen. 



(3) Compared with the eastern races : The small size, conxbined 

 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). Pg and p^ present. Cingula of the upper 

 canine and p* overlajjping. This dentition is more in accordance 

 with that of the typical ferrum-equinum 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. § ad. (in alcohol). Gilgit. Presented by Dr. J. Scully. 

 Brit. Mus, no. 81.3.1.10, 



14 e. Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum Schreb., typicus. 

 Le fer-a-cheval Daubenton, Mem. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belg. 1759, 

 pp. 377, 382, pi. 15. fig. 4. 



Yespertilio Ferrum eqidnum (partim) Schreber, Saugthiere, i. 



(1775) pp. 174, 188, pi. 62 (the two upper figures). 



Vespertilio eqiiinus (partim) P. L. S. Miiller, ISTatursyst., Suppl. 



(1776) p. 20. 



Vespertilio Ungida (partim) Boddaert, Elenchns animalium, i. 

 (1785) p. 71. 



Vespertilio Ferrum eqidnum^ a. onajor Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 i. (1788) p. 50. 



Vespertilio Hipj^ocrepis (partim) Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. (1798) 

 p. 64. 



Rhinolophus uni-hastatus Geofiroy Saint- Hilaire, Descr. de 

 rEgypte,ii. (1812) p. 132 ; id., Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat, xx. (1813) 

 p. 257, pi. 5. 



Rhinolophus ferrum-eqidnimi var. gernianicus et var. itcdicus 

 Koch, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau, 1862-63, pp. 522, 523 *. 



Rhinolojihtisferrwrn-equinum (partim) Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 

 1871, p. 310 ; Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mxis. (1878) p. 119. 



Rhinolophus lihanoticus, conchifer, et rufescens " Ehrbg. et 

 Lichtst. Mspt," Peters, loc. cit, (1871) (nomina nuda). 



Diagnosis. Size moderate, horse-shoe rather narrow, tail long. 

 Skull leather small and slender, with narrow nasal swellings and 

 short tooth-rows. 



* Koch's two "varieties " of ferrum-eqtunum must have been based on too small 

 a material, or there must be some mistake in his statements. That individuals 

 from S. Europe, i. e., Europe S. 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 

 Riicten 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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