142 MR. K. ANDERSEN ON BATS [May 16, 



Rhinoloph.ijS Hipposideros var. ttjims, alpinus, et palliclus 

 (partim) Kocli, Jahrb. Yer. Naturk. Nassau (1862-63) pp. 530- 

 31 *. 



Rhinolophus hipp)osicleros (partim) Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 

 1871, p. 310; Dobson, Oat. Ohir. Brit. Mus. (1878) p. 117. 



Rhinolo2}hus Uhastatus var. Kisnyiresiensis Daday, Orvos-Term. 

 Ertes. X. pt. 3 (1885) p. 274. 



Rhinolojihus Mpjjosideros var. troylop>hilus Daday, Magy. tud. 

 Akad. Ertekez. xvi. pt. 7 (1886) p. 8, figs. 1, 2. _ 



Rhinolophus eurycde 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 (I): 39-6+ N. Bulgaria (1): 39. 

 Roumania (13): 39-41-2. Transsylvania (2) : 40-41. S. Car- 

 pathians (1): 39-3. Hungary (1): 41-7. Schlangenbad (2): 

 40-40-1. Strassbourg (3): 39-40-1. TJiurgau and Yallais (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. 



27 c. E,HIiVOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDERUS MINUTUS MontagU. 



Vesp>ertilio minutus Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. (1808) 

 p. 162, pi. 18. figs. 7-8. 



Diagnosis. Forearm 36-3-39 mm. 



Details. English and Irish individuals of Rh. hipjjosiderus diflTer 

 from the Central European form in being on an average (and 

 nearly always also ahsoliotely) smaller. The length of the forearm 

 varies, 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 heloio 

 the minimum of the typical form., and almost exactly like maxim.um 

 o/Rh. h. minimus. 



Distribution. England, Wales, Ireland §. 



Technical name. Till the close of the 18th century, the two 

 Bats now called Rh. ferrum-eqimmm and Rh. Mpposiderus 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. typuB and alpinus belong, probably, to the Central European form ; 

 var. palUdus seems to be a mixture of this and the southern race. 



t A glance at the measurements in Bretscher's paper is sufficient to show that 

 what he takes to be " eine ausgesprochene Lokalform " of Bh. euryale is an ordinary, 

 typical Mil. Mpposiderus ! 



X I ought perhaps to mention that this example, the only topical liipposiderus I have 

 seen IVom Cyprus, is a dealer's specimen; a Cyprus series collected and presented by 

 Miss Dovotiiy M. A. Bate {of. P. Z. S. 1903, 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. 



