228 RHINOLOPHID.E— RHINOLOPHUS 



THE GREATER HORSESHOE BAT. 



RHINOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM (Schreber). 

 RHIXOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM INSULANUS (Barret(-HamiUon), 



1760. Le Fer-A-CHEVAL, L. J. M. Daubenton in E. L. le Clerc, Comte de Buffon's 



Histoire Naturelle, viii., 131-133, 13S, 137, pi. xx., figs, i and 2; also, M^m. de 



I'Acad. Roy. des Set., 377, 382, pi. 15, fig. 4, 1759, published 1765 ; described from 



France. 

 1774. Vespertilio FERRUM-EQUINUM (in part), J. C. D. von. Schrebei", Die 



Saugthiere, i., pi. Ixii., upper of two figs, 174, 190; evidently naming Daubenton's 



Le Fer-d-cheval ; Montagu, Transactions Linnean Soc. (London), ix., 162, i8o8 ; 



Bingley ; Donovan ; Clermont. 

 1776. Vespertilio equinus (in part), P. L. S. Miiller, Natursy stems Supplements 



und Register Band, 20, renaming Schreber's Vespertilio ferrum-equinum. 

 1779. Vespertilio perspicillatus, J. F. Blumenbachs, Handbuch der Natur- 



geschichte, 75 (part) ; included the leaf-nosed bats of Europe and South America. 

 1785. Vespertilio ungula (in part), P. Boddaert, Elettchus Animalium, i., 71, 



renaming Schreber's V. ferrum-equinum. 

 1788. Vespertilio ferrum-equinum, a major, J. F. Gmelin, Systema Naturae, i., 50. 

 1792.' Vespertilio ferrum equinum major, Robert Kerr, Animal Kingdom, c)q 



(not V. molossus major of Kerr, op. cit., 97) ; described from France. 



1797. Noctilio ferrum-equinum, J. M. Bechstein, Der Zoologe, i, i.-viii., 62. 



1798. Vespertilio hippocrepis (in part), F. von P. Schrank, Fauna Boica, i., 64. 

 1803. RHINOLOPHUS MAJOR, ittienne Geoffroy, Catalogue Mammifires Mus. dHist. 



Nat. (Paris), 56 ; described from Burgundy. 

 1807. Vespertilio ferrum equinum majus, Lazare Spallanzani, Rapports de I'air 



avec les etres organist, etc., edited by Jean Senebier, ii., yj (Geneva) ; described 



from Nonantola, near Modena, or from Scandiano, Italy. 

 1813. RHINOLOPHUS uni-hastatus, Isidore Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. d'Bist. Nat, 



XX., 257 ; described from Europe. 

 18 17. RHINOLOPHUS ferrum-equinum, W. E. Leach, Zoological Miscellany, iii., 



2 ; Harting, Zoologist, 1887, 2, pi. i. (G. E. Lodge), et plurimorumauctorum. 

 1829. RHINOLOPHUS UNIFER, Jakop Kaup, System der Europdische n. Thierwelt, 



\., 104 ; without description, hence a 7iomen nudum. 



1862-63. RHINOLOPHUS ferrum-equinum, var. GERMANICUS et var. ITALICUS, Carl 



Koch, Jahrbiicher des Vereins fiir Naturkunde im Herzogthum (Nassau), xviii., 

 522-523 ; described from Europe, north and south of the Alps respectively, but 

 evidently in error (see Andersen, Prac. Zool. Soc. (London), i6th May 1905, 113 

 footnote). 



1872. RHINOLOPHUS LIBANOTICUS, CONCHIFER, et RUFESCENS, " Ekrbg. et Lichst. 

 Mpts," W. Peters, Monatsberichte der Kdniglich Preussiscken Acad, der Wissen- 

 schaften (Berlin), 1871, 310 ; without description, hence a nomen nudum. 



1885. RHINOLOPHUS unihastatus var. HOMORODALMASIENSIS, Daday Jeno, Orvos 

 —Termeszettudomdnyi Ertesito, etc., x. (3), 274; described from Homorod— 

 Almas, Hungary, in error (see Mehely, Monographia Chiropterorum Hungariae, 

 120-122 and 323, 1900). 



1887. RHINOLOPHUS FERRUM EQUINUM, var. HOMORODENSIS, Daday Jeno, trte- 

 kezhek A Termdszettudomdnyok Kdrdbdl, Budapest, xvi.. No. 7, 13, pi., figs. 5 and 6, 

 1886; renaming his var. HOMORODALMASIENSIS. 



