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))quam jure ob fasciatas secundum digitos alas V. pictum 

 »vocaveris, et cui Ceylonense Kiriwoula nomen esse accepi." 



1777. Erxleben wrote Kiriwula. 



1785. Boddaert called the species Vespertilio Kiriwoula. 



1842. Gray created the genus Kerivoula, apparently 

 giving a wrong turn to Pallas' Kiriiooula. 



1852. Kelaart accepted Gray's genus under correction of 

 Kerivoula in Kerivoulha ; after him however the Singhalese 

 name is Kehel-voulha, which means the plaintain bat, as 

 Kehel = plaintain and Voulha = a bat ; he cannot understand 

 why and wherefore Gray adopted the term » Kerivoulha" 

 as a generic name, for there are no bats in Ceylon called 

 by the Singhalese Kerivoulha^ which means milky hat; he 

 therefore thinks it better to change Gray's generic name 

 into Kehel-voulha or some other appropriate term. Kelaart 

 wrote his » Prodromus faunae ceylanicae" in Ceylon and 

 had no library at his disposal, therefore he could not 

 know that Pallas used the name Kiriivoula, modified by 

 Gray in Kerivoula. 



1888 — 91. Blanford changed Gray's name without any 

 comment in Cerivoula. 



As the latter orthography lately has been followed by 

 other english-writing authors, it seems to me indicated to 

 observe that the correctly written generic name would be 

 Kehelvoulha, that however according to the rule of priority 

 this name cannot stand, so that Kerivoula should generally 

 be accepted, meaawhile there is no reason at all to write 

 that generic title with a c. 



By the way I fix the attention to an interesting biological 

 observation, published in 1900 by Mr. Stanley S. Flower, 

 in the P. Z. S. L. p. 347, namely that Mr. Phra Gog 

 Chow Sye Sanitwongse wrote to him the following note 

 concerning a specimen of Kerivoula picta » Orange-colored 

 »bat from a Swamp called Bang Falari at the Rangsit 

 » Canal: it sleeps in the flower of the Cala Lilly." It sounds 

 like a wonderful tale, a golden and red and black colored 

 bat sleeping in a Lilly-flower ! 



Notes from the Ijeyden IMiiseutn, Vol. XXIV. 



