340 VESPEBTILKOTDJG. 



Madras and the Malabar coast, Ceylon, where it appears to be 

 common, and Burma. Bare in the drier parts of India. 



Habits. This very richly-coloured bat is said to be often found on 

 plantain trees (J\Ivsa), and its Cingalese name, of which the generic 

 term applied by Gray is probably a corruption, means plantain 

 bat. When disturbed in the daytime, C. pi eta looks, as Jerdon 

 remarks, more like a large butterfly than a bat. The brilliant 

 coloration is shown by Swinhoe to be very similar to that of some 

 dead leaves, and consequently to be protective. 



214. Cerivonla hardwickii. HardwicJce's Bat. 



Vespertilio hardwiekii, Horsfield, Res. Java (1824). 



Kenvoula hardwickii, Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 148 : id. Cat. Chir. 



B. M. p. 335 ; Anderson, Cat. p. 145. 

 Kerivoula fusca, Dobson, P. A. 8. B. 1871, p. 215. 



Ears a little longer than in G. picta, but not extending to the 

 nostrils when laid forward ; tips thoroughly rounded, inner margins 

 regularly convex from, end to end ; outer margins deeply concave 

 below the tip, then much expanded, even more so than in C. picta. 

 Tragus very long and much attenuated, inner margin straight, 

 outer with a small angular projection opposite the base of the 

 inner margin, above this convex, the upper two thirds concave, 

 tip pointed. 



Fig. 110. Head of Cerivonla hardwickii. (Dobson, Mon. As. Chir.) 



Thumb large. Wings from the base of the toes. Posterior 

 margin of interfemoral membrane finely crenulated and fringed 

 with very few hairs. All the membranes nearly naked, the fur 

 being almost confined to the body. 



Upper inner incisors without any posterior cusp, outer incisors 

 scarcely half the length of the inner. First upper premolar equal 

 to the third in height, though less in section, second premolar about 

 one third shorter. 



Colour of fur greyish brown above and below, the basal half dark 

 brown. Membranes uniformly dark. 



Dimensions. Head and body 1-5 inches, tail 1*7, ear from 

 crown outside 0'45, forearm 1*4. 



Distribution. Probably throughout the greater part of the 

 Oriental region. A specimen, now in the British Museum, was 

 obtained by Mr. Theobald in the Punjab on the Indus, another 

 is from Ceylon, and others are recorded from Assam and the 

 Khasi hills, as well as from Cambodia, Java, Borneo, &c. 



