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1829. ? Bhinolophus bifer Kaup, Entw.-Gesch. u. Natiirl. Syst. Burop. 



Thierwelt, I, p. 104 (nomen nudum). 

 1857. ? Bhinolophus hipposideros Blasius.'Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 29. 

 1863. [Bhinolophus hipposideros'] a var. typus Koch, Jahrb. des Vereins fur 



Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau, xvm, p. 530 (Wiesbaden). 

 1863. [Bhinolophus hipposideros] var. alpinus Koch, Jahrb. des Vereins 



fiir Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau, xvm, p. 530 (Alps). 

 1870. Bhinolophus eggentioffner Pitzinger, Sitzungsber. kais. Akad. 



Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Classe, lxi, Abth. i, p. 151 



(MS. synonym of bihastatus). 

 1878. Bhinolophus hipposideros Dobson, Oatal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 117. 



1885. Bhinolophus bihastatus var. kisnyiresiensis Daday, Orvos-Termesz- 



ettudomanyi Ertesito, KojLozsvar, x, p. 274 (Kis-Nyires, Szolnok- 

 Dobaka, Hungary). 



1886. Bhinolophus bihastatus var. kisnyiresiensis Daday, Verhandl. u. 



Mittheilungen des Siebenburgischen Vereins fiir Naturwissensch. 

 in Hermannstadt, xxxvi, p. 80. 



1887. Bhinolophus hipposideros var. troglophilus Daday, Ertekezesek a 



Termeszettudomanyok Korebol, Budapest, xvi, pt. 7, p. 8 (Re- 

 naming of kisnyiresiensis). 



1904. Bhinolophus euryale helvetica Bretscher, Vierteljahrsschrift der 



Naturforsch. Gesellsch. in Zurich, xlix, p. 256. See Mottaz, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool., Geneve, ±., p. 172, 1908 (Baar, Zug, Switzerland). 



1905. Bhinolophus hipposiderus typicus Andersen, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1905, n, p. 141, October 17, 1905. 

 1910. Bhinolophus hiijposiderus Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 9. 



Type locality. — France. 



Geographical distribution. — Central Europe, north of the Alps, 

 east through Armenia and north-west Persia to the Himalayas. 



Diagnosis. — Forearm* usually 39 to 41 • 7 mm.; greatest 

 length of skullf about 16 mm. 



Measurements. — Two males from Strass near Burgheim, 

 Bavaria, Germany: tibia, 17 and 18-4; foot, 7 - 8 and 7*4; 

 forearm, 38-8 and 39 • 2 ; third finger, 61 and 60 ; fifth finger, 

 54 and 53. Female from the same locality : tibia, 17 • 4 ; foot, 

 7-4; forearm, 38-8; third finger, 60; fifth finger, 53. The 

 six following extremes of forearms of European specimens are 

 given by Andersen (I.e. p. 142) : 1ST. Bulgaria (1), 39 ; Roumania 

 (13), 39 to 41-2 ; Transsylvania (2), 40 to 41 ; S. Carpathians 

 (1), 39-3; Schlangenbad, Nassau, Germany (2), 40 to 40" 1; 

 Strassburg, Germany (3), 39 to 40*1. Forty-nine males from 

 the vicinity of Geneva, Switzerland (Mottaz collection),! 37 ' 3 

 to 39. Thirty females from the same locality (Mottaz collection), J 

 38-5 to 40-6. Four males from the same locality (U.S.N.M.), 

 37 to 38-4 Six females from the same locality (U.S.N.M.), 

 37 -4 to 40. Adult female from Dions, Gard, France (Mottaz 

 collection), 40. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 152. 



* Bases of metacarpals included, 

 t Prom back of occiput to front of canine. 



X Measured by Chas. Mottaz (base of metacarpals included) and verified 

 by Gerrit S. Miller. 



