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2. Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum NIPPON Temm. 

 J . 485. Tano, Miyasaki Ken, Kiushiu. 



3. PipisTRELLUs abramus Temm. 



S • 6. Takayu, near Yonezawa, Uzeu, N. Central Hondo. 



Dr. Jentink* has shown that Temminck's Vespertilio akokomidi 

 is the same species as his V. abramus. The type locality of botli 

 is Nagasaki, Kiushiu. 



"Caught, with the two , succeeding species, in caves near the 

 village." — M. P. A. 



4. Myotis (Leucoxoe) macrodactylus Temm. 



5. 490, 500. $. 493, 494, 515, 516, 517. Tano, Miyasaki 

 Ken, Kiushiu. 500'. 



Dimensions of an adult male : — 



Forearm 36 mm. 



Head and body 44 ; tail 35 ; ear 14"5. 



These specimens agree absolutely with Temminck's description, 

 and there can be no doubt that they belong to his species, in spite 

 of Peters's assertion t that macrodactylus resembled very closely 

 the European M. capaccinii, to which these examples bear no 

 resemblance whatever. Indeed, so great is the discrepancy, that I 

 am tempted to suppose that Peters did not really see the specimens 

 described by Temminck at all. M. macrodactylus in fact is more 

 closely allied to M. dau,hentom. 



5. Myotis nattereri bomeinus, subsp. n. 



2 . 486, 487, 488, 489, 492. Tano, Miyasaki Ken, Kiushiu. 

 500'. 



Similar in essential respects to the European M. nattereri, which 

 it evidently represents in Japan. But the ear appears to be rather 

 longer (judging from skins only), the tragus nari-ower and more 

 boldly curved outwards, the skull is more abruptly and considerably 

 inflated in the frontal region, and the colour is not quite the same. 



In true il/. nattereri the colour is paler and more uniform than 

 in the other small European species of Myotis, this being apparently 

 due to the fact that the pale brown ends to the hairs are longer 

 and therefore hide the blackish-grey of their bases. In homhimis, 

 however, the coloration is moi^e normal, a darker variegated brown, 

 the blackish-grey bases of the hairs showing through. In a 

 similar way below, the light ends to the hairs are shorter and less 

 prominently white. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Forearm 40 mm. 



Head and body 52 ; tail 44 ; ear 17. 



* Notes Leyd. Mus. ii. p. 37 (1879). 



t MB. Ak. Berl. 1866, p. 681. Dobson, on this statement, actually synonymised 

 macrodactylus with capaccinii. 



