250 RHINOLOPHID^— RHINOLOPHUS 



THE LESSER HORSESHOE BAT. 



RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS (Bechstein). 

 RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS MINUTUS (Montagu). 



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



Histoire Naturelle,v\<\., I3i-I33,pl- xx., figs, i and 2 ; also, Af//«. de I' Acad. Roy. 



des Set., m, 382, pi. XV., fig. 4, 1759, published 1765 ; described from France. 

 1774. Vespertilio ferrum-equinum (in part), J. C. D. von Schreber, Die 



Sdugthiere, i., pi. Ixii., two lower figures, 174, 19° 5 evidently naming Daubenton's 



Le Fer-d-cheval s Montagu, Transactions Linnean Soc. (London), ix., 162, 1808 ; 



Bingley; Clermont. 

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



und Register Band, 20. 

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



renaming Schreber's V. ferrum-equinum. 

 1788. Vespertilio ferrum-equinum, jS. minor, J. F. Gmelin, Sy sterna Naturae, i., 50. 

 1792. Vespertilio ferrum equinum minor, Robert Kerr, Animal Kingdom, 99 



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



1797. NOCTILIO HIPPOSIDEROS, J. M. Bechstein, Der Zoologe, I., i.-viii., 65. 



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

 1800. Vespertilio hipposideros, J. M. Bechstein, in Thomas Pennant's Allgemeine 



Uebersicht der vierfussigen Thiere, ii., 629 footnote, see also 615 and 736; 

 Donovan. 



1803. RHINOLOPHUS MINOR, ]£tienne Geoffroy, Catalogue Mammif Ires Mus. d>Hist. 

 Nat. (Paris), 57 ; described from Paris. 



1804. Vespertilio (? RhiNolophus) hippocrepis, Johannes Hermann, Observa- 

 iiones Zoologicae, 18. 



1808. Vespertilio minutus, George Montagu, Trans. Linnean Soc. (London), ix., 

 163, etc.; described from Devonshire, England; Pennant, ed. of 1812, 181, i., 

 pi. xiv., figs. 3 and 4. 



1813. RHINOLOPHUS bi-hastatus, Isidore Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat., 

 XX., 259 ; renaming Daubenton's Le petit Fer-A-cheval. 



1 8 16. Phyllorhina minuta, W. E. Leach, Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens 

 of The Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are Preserved in The British Museum, 

 etc. (London), i ; named, without description, from Torquay, Devon. 



1 817. RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS, W. E. Leach, Zoological Miscellany, iii., 2, sp. 2, 

 pi. 121, etplurimorum auctorum. 



1829. RHINOLOPHUS BIFER, Jakob Kaup, System der Europdische Thierwelt, i. 104 ; 

 without description, hence a nomen nudum. 



1862-63. RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS, var. TYPUS, ALPINUS, et PALLIDUS (in part), 



Carl Koch, Jahrbiicher des Vereinsfiir Naturkunde im Herzogthum (Nassau), 530- 

 531 ; described vaguely and "scarcely determinable" (Andersen). 

 1885. RHINOLOPHUS BIHASTATUS, var. KiSNYiRESiENSis, Daday Jeno, Orvos- 

 Termdszettudomdnyi Ertesito, etc., x. (3), 274 ; described from Kis-Nyires, Trans- 

 sylvania. 



