1905.] OF THE GENUS RHINOLOPHUS. 141 



The skull is markerlly smaller, the nasal swellings a trifle 

 narrower, the teeth slightly smaller. 



Disti'ibution. 32 specimens examined. As it is of some interest 

 to have the range of this hitherto overlooked form exactly 

 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(l, the type*): forearm 36'3. Sennar(l): 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) : 377-38. Balearic Islands (7) : 36-2-37-6. Seville t 

 (1): 37-7. Morocco (Tangiers 1): 37-7. Portugal (Cintra 1): 

 36-2. 



Summary of Distribution : — The Mediterranean Subregion, 

 southeastwards to Sennar and Keren. Be it noted : there is no 

 record from Egypt (and, very likely, it does not occur there : cf. 

 remarks on p. 143). 



Remarks, In the whole sei'ies of Rh. hi'jyposiderus 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. S.W. Switzerland ; perhaps also 

 Cyprus) the two forms occur together^ perhaps side by side, but 

 intermediate examples I have never seen. They will probably be 

 found. 



27 h. Rhinolophus hipposidekus Bechst,, typicus. 



Yespertilio Ferrimn equinum (partim) Schreber, Saugthiere, i. 



(1775) pp. 174, 188, pi. 62 (lower fig. only). 



Vespertilio equimts (partim) P. L. S. Miiller, Natursvst., Suppl. 



(1776) p. 20. 



Vesp>ertiliQ Ferrum eqidmtm, (3. minor, Gmelin, Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. i. (1788) p. 50. 



Vesjyertilio Hippoci-eins (partim) Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. (1798) 

 p. 64. 



Vespertilio Hipposideros Bechstein, in Pennant's Allg. Uebers. 

 vierfliss. Thiere, ii. (1800) p. 629, footnote (compare also pp. 615 

 and 736). 



Vespertilio hippocrepis Hermaim, Obs. Zool. (1804) p. 18. 



Rhinolophus hi-hastatus Geoftroy St.-Hilaire, Descr. de I'Egypte, 

 ii. (1812) p, 132; id., Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. xx. (1813) p. 259, 

 pi. 5. 



* For the loan of this specimen I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Kurt Lamport, Director 

 of the Royal Natural Histor^^ Cabinet, Stuttgart. The type is a youns:, but apparently 

 fullgrown, individual. u4/Z other examples ofJnjjposiderus, of all races, of which I give 

 the measurements, are fully adult (distal epiphyses of metacarpals ossified). 



t As I have seen only one example from Spain, I may mention that of the whole 

 series examined by Cabrera Latorre, for his "Quir6pteros de Espana," no Spanish 

 specimen had the forearm more than 37'5 mm. (Mem. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. ii. 

 (1904) p. 252). I am unacquainted with the Rh. pJiasma (allied to Idpposiderns) 

 described by Cabrera in the same paper. 



