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RHINOLOPHIDiE. 



CHEIROPTERA. 



RBINOWPEJD^. 



LESSER HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



Rhinolophus hipposideros. 



Specific c/taracier.— Posterior nasal appendage lanceolate, without lateral 

 expansions at the base : ears deeply sinuous at the outer margins ; the trans- 

 verse sulci obsolete. 



Vesperlilio ferrum-equmum, /3, Gmel. Link. 50. 



minutuSj 

 , , hipposideros, 

 Noctilio, 

 Rhinolophus bihcistaius, 



hipposideros, 



_ pocrepu, 

 Pet'it Fer-d-CJieval, 



Montagu, Linn. Trans, ix. p. 163. 

 Beohsteih. 



Natukg. Deutsch. p. 1194. 

 Geoff. Ann. Mus. xx. p. 259, t. v. Desmak. 

 Mamm. p. 125, sp. 185. Gray, Zool. Journ. 

 ii. p. 109. 

 Leach, ZooI. Misc. iii. p. 2, t. cxxi. Flem. 

 Brit. An. p. 5. Jenyws, Brit. Vert. p. 20. 

 Blasius, Faun. Deutsch. i. p. 29. 

 Hekm. Observ. Zool. p. 18. 

 Daubent. Bufpon, Hist. mi. riii. p. 131, 

 t. xvii. f. 2. 



This species was long considered as merely a variety 

 of the Greater Horse-shoe Bat. Gmelin gives it as 



