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Show 94 DR. MONTICELLI ON SOUTH ITALIAN CHIROPTERA. [Feb. 2 Chiroptera of the kingdom of Naples ; but after him, e^epting Major", who announced the discovery of Vesperugo leulerin South Italy, no one else has written about the Chiroptera of thiscountry. Q u £ recently, however, Camerano and Lessona2 have g ven notices of some of the Southern species. Prof Costa s work m l 8 39 enumerates the following species -.-Bhmolophus bihastatus, " serotinus, VesplrtZ bechsteinii, Vespertilio murinus Dyopescestoni, Plecotus auritus, and Myopterus daubentonu From tins Catalogue of Costa must be excepted V ^hf.in^hlf\^2 not yet met with, and Myopterus daubentoni, which is not a ™ p e a n species ; but there are to be added thirteen other species, so that the number of Chiroptera of South Italy now consists of at least eighteen species. Amongst the thirteen species to be added to the catalogue o Costa there are many very important as regards the geographical distribution of the different species in Italy ; such as Synotus barba-stellus, which so far has only been found in Northern Italy ; and also a species altogether new to Italy, which I have recently described as Vespertilio oxygnathus. „ . I am preparing descriptions, carefully compiled, of all the boutri- Italian Chiroptera ; but for the present I give this preliminary catalogue of them, with indications of the localities where they are found. 1. NYCTINOMUS CESTONI, Savi. This species does not seem to be common in the South, but it is not rare at Naples. I have not been able to procure specimens from other points of the Mediterranean side of Italy, but it is possible that it may be found on the Adriatic side, where so lar no researches have been made. 2. RHINOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM, Schr. This species is very common, and easy to find anywhere. 3. RHINOLOPHUS EURYALE, Bias. Although Camerano and Lessona say this species is less common than the preceding, and is found particularly in North Italy, I have also found it equally distributed in South Italy. 4. RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS, Bechst. Less common than the preceding, but not rare. I have not met with B. blasii, Peters, although Blasius says that he found it in Middle and Southern Italy and Sicily, and Camerano obtained it in Sardinia. 5. MlNIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSI, Natt. Very common throughout the whole of South Italy. 1 " Vertebrati Italiani nuovi o poco noti" : Atti Soc. Tosc. Natur. Pisa, vol. iii. 1876. , Q _ 2 ' Compendio della Fauna Itahana : Torino, Loescber, 1885. |
