CEEIVOTJLA. 339 



ris of Indian, Ceylonese, and Burmese species. 



A. Wing-membranes particoloured orange and 



black c. picta, p. 330. 



B. Wing-membranes of the same colour through- 



out 



a. The ear, when laid forward, does not ex- 



tend to the nostril ; forearm 1-4 C. hardwickii, p. 340. 



b. The ear extends. to the nostril; forearm 1-7. C. papillosa, p. 341. 



213. Cerivoula picta. The painted Bat. 



Vespertilio pictus, Pallas, Spic. Zool. fasc. iii, p. 7 (1767). 

 Kenvoula picta, Cantor, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 185 ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xx, 



p. 158 ; id. Cut. p. 34; Kelaart, Prod. p. 25 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 43 ; 



Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 146; id. Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 332; 



Anderson, Cat. p. 144. 

 Kehel vulha, Cingalese. 



Ears moderately long, reaching when laid forward to halfway 

 between the eye and the muzzle, bluntly but distinctly pointed, 

 broad ; inner margin very convex and coming forward above the 

 eye, terminating in a rounded basal lobe ; outer margin concave 

 just below the tip, then coming forward with a bold convex sweep 

 and terminating abruptly midway between the base of the tragus 

 and the angle of the mouth. Tragus very long, the outer margin 

 without a basal lobe, but with a projecting point opposite the base 

 of the inner margin, from this point the outer margin slopes 

 straight upwards to the fine pointed tip; inner margin straight 

 throughout. 



Thumb short ; wings from the base of the toes. Face naked in 

 front of the eyes, and around them and the nostrils, but densely 

 haired on the upper lip and above the middle of the nose. Hair 

 is thinly scattered over the wing-membranes near the body, and 

 on the upper surface of the interfeinoral ; the toes are densely 

 clad, and a thick short fringe of hair extends along the posterior 

 margin of the calcaneum and interfemoral membrane. 



Inner upper incisors' long and pointed, each with a basal cusp 

 posteriorly and externally situated ; outer incisors about equal in 

 length to the basal cusps of the inner. First and second upper 

 premolars subequal. 



Colour of fur above deep orange or bright ferruginous, below 

 yellower and paler, the hairs the same tint throughout; ears, 

 antebrachial and interfemoral membranes deep orange ; wing- 

 membranes black with orange spots, except along both sides of 

 each finger, the margin of the forearm, and along the body, where 

 the colour is orange. 



Dimensions. Head and body 1-5 inches, tail 1-7, forearm 1-4, 

 ear from crown outside 0*4. 



Distribution. Widely distributed in India, Ceylon, and Burma, 

 being recorded from Sikhim, Calcutta, Dacca, Jeypore, Bombay, 



