O. G. Dely szerk.: Vertebrata Hungarica 6/1-2. (Budapest, 1964)

Topál, Gy.: The subfossil Bats of the Vass Imre-Cave 109-120. o.

V E R TE B RATA HUNGARICA MUSEI HISTORICO-NATURALIS HUNGARlCl 1964. Fosc. 1-2. The Subfossil Bats of the Vass Imre-Cave By Gy. Topái Zoological Department of Hi* Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest I submit in this paper the Chiroptera remains collected on the request of the Cave Research Group of the University of Technical Sciences, in the „Bat Cemetery" section of the VASS IMRE-CAVE near Jósvafő, NE Hungary, in October, 1959. The cave, named after an early Hungarian cave-explorer, I.VASS, about 3 km NE of the village JósvafS, and in connec tion with the Kls-Tohonya spring, became known on the summer of 1954 after a heavy rainstorm, when the waters filling the major part of the upper and now inactive section of the c-i/e erupted like a fountain from the slope above the spring.By descending through the crater thus formed, the explorers discovered the cave, the Intensive studying and the exposing of the still unknown passages of which is still being carried on. Prior to its discovery, no entrance of connection of the cave with the outer world was, of course, known , nor did the later explorations found any. It is still undecided therefore how the bats had found their way into the cave. The old, probably narrow, entrance must obviously had b^en stopped long ago. The collecting site is on the uppermost level of the main passage, about 350 m from the recent artifical entrance, rome :-8 m above the old box com of the brook I' '•ar be approached only by travers lüg.