CHIROTTERI DI LIGURIA 445 
Nei Proc. of the Zool. Soc. of. Lond. 1880, p. 461, lo stesso 
Dobson pubblica una Memoria « On some new or rare spe- 
cies of Chiroptera in the Collection of the Géttingen Museum » 
ed enumera due esemplari del Vesperugo maurus (loc. cit. p. 462) 
dicendo che uno viene dalla Toscana e che fu spedito dal prof. Savi 
al Museo di Gottinga nel 1847 ed etichettato dallo stesso Savi 
come Vespertilio Savii, Bonaparte! Ma il Dobson va adagio in 
fatto di sinonimia, almeno questa volta, e più sotto in una nota 
a pag. 463 dello stesso lavoro, dice: 
« Vespertilio Savi, Bonap., and the other species (V. Leu- 
» cippe, V. Aristippe, V. alcythoe) described by Bonaparte (Fauna 
» Italica, 1837), are not included by me in the Catal. Chiropt. 
» Br. Mus., because, in the first place, I was unable to obtain 
» an examination of the types, which appear to be in the pos- 
» session of. M. R. F. Tomes, and are noticed by him to have 
» been in a very bad state when he received them from Prince 
» Bonaparte in 1857 (See P. Z. S. 1858, p. 81), and, secondly, 
» because the descriptions in the « Fauna Italica » were quite 
» insufficient to enable me to assign places to them in my work. 
» Thus, had I followed Bonaparte’s original, and Keyserling 
» and Blasius’s subsequent description (Wiegm. Archiv, 1839, 
» p. 317) of. V. Savi, that species must have been placed in 
» the subgenus Vesperus; while V. maurus, Blas., which is evi- 
» dently another name for the same species, would have ap- 
» peared, as it rightly does, among the species of the subgenus 
» Vesperugo. I say « evidently » for it appears quite clear to 
» me that prof. Savi knew the species with which his name 
» had been associated, and sent a correctly named specimen 
» (though not the type of the species) to the Gottingen Museum, 
» which corresponds in.all respects, except in dentition , with 
» the descriptions referred to above. Nevertheless, I retain 
» Blasius name Vesperugo maurus, given in 1853, in preference 
» to Bonaparte’s, as, for the reasons I have given, it is impos- 
» sible to be absolutely sure that it is a synonym of. V. Savi ». 
Finalmente lo stesso Dobson dopo aver avuto fra le mani il 
lavoro del F. Major, nel « Report on accessions to our Know- 
