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53. Kerivoula picta. 



Vespertilio apud PALLAS. BLYTH, Cat. 109. V. kerivoula, BOD- 



DAERT. 



THE PAINTED BAT. 



Descr. Fur fine, woolly ; above, yellowish-red or golden-rufous ; 

 beneath, less brilliant and more yellow ; wing-membranes, inky-black, 

 with rich orange stripes along the fingers, extending in indentations 

 into the membrane. 



Length, 3 T 3 ^ inches, of which the tail is 1 T % ; expanse 10; forearm 

 1 T 8 ^ ; tibia T %ths ; ears T %ths. One measured, head and body 1 T 9 Q- inch ; 

 tail 1J; forearm 1 T *2 ; tibia T 7 ths; expanse 10J. 



This very beautiful bat, which, when disturbed in the daytime, looks 

 more like a butterfly or moth than a bat, has been found over a great part 

 of India, though nowhere common. I first obtained it at Madras, and 

 subsequently on the Malabar -coast. It has also been found in Bengal, in 

 Dacca, where it is said not to be rare, and called the " orange bat," also 

 in Ceylon, and in Burmah and Malayana. It conceals itself in the folded 

 leaf of the plantain, and its Ceylonese name is properly, as Kelaart tells 

 us, Kehelvoulha, meaning plantain bat. 



54. Kerivoula pallida. 



BLYTH, Cat. 108. 



THE PALE PAINTED BAT. 



Descr. " Much larger than K. picta, with the woolly fur shorter, 

 denser, and much paler in colouring; fulvous, with a slight ruddy 

 or ferruginous cast, paler on the under parts ; the orange portion of 

 the wings broader and less defined ; forearm 2 ; longest finger 3 ; 

 expanse 11." 



This bat was sent from Chybassa by Tickell. 



55. Kerivoula papillosa. 



Vespertilio apud TEMMINCK. TOMES, P. Z. S. 1858. 

 THE PAPILLOSE BAT. 



Descr. Fur fine, woolly, long, bicoloured ; above, dusky at the base, 

 brown, with a rufous tinge at the tip ; beneath, dusky at base, yellowish- 

 brown at tip. Interfemoral membrane margined with minute papilli. 



Length, head and body, 2 incjjps ; tail 2; forearm 1| ; tibia -Jths. 



