174 KERIVOULA PICTA, 



NOTE IV. 



ON KERIVOULA PICTA (PALLAS) AND DESCRIPTION 

 OF A NEW BAT FROM PARAMARIBO 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



November 1903. 



Dr. M. Greshoff, Director of the Coloaial Museum at 

 Haarlem, eutrusted to me the other day some exotic Bats 

 for identification. Among them there was a specimen from 

 the West-Indies, apparently belonging to a hitherto unde- 

 scribed species, besides a specimen of the splendid Kerivoula 

 picta from Sumatra, Deli; it is the first specimen of this 

 species I ever saw from this locality. Like the above 

 mentioned specimens this, too concerning the habitat, so 

 interesting individual forms now part of our collections 

 thanks to the kindness of Dr. Greshoff. 



Kerivoula picta (Pallas). 



Although there is no perceptible difference between the 

 Sumatra-Bat and its fellows from the Indian Continent, 

 Ceylon and Java, 1 thought it right to fix the attention on 

 Sumatra as locality; 1 take advantage of this opportunity to 

 support the generic title Kerivoula, having grown unstable in 

 the latest years. The short history of the thing is as follows : 



1767. Pallas described the species under the name Vesper- 

 tilio pictus in his pithy latin : ))Ceylona et e Moluccana 

 «Archipelago parvula adferri solet Vespertilionis species, 



>fote8 from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XXIV. 



