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accessory cusp behind the base ; the anterior ones are the longer. 

 The canines are long and pointed ; and in most of the species the 

 cingulum is amply developed. Between them and the incisors the 

 interval is very small. The next two teeth are very simple in form, 

 conical, and pointed. Following these is the carnassier or sectorial 

 tooth, in form as in the ordinary Vespertilionidce ; and the molars are 

 of the ordinary form and proportions. 



In the lower jaw the incisors are small and trilobed, those 

 contiguous to the canines having their central lobe very much deve- 

 loped, and of a blunt conical form. The canines require no parti- 

 cular notice. Following these, the premolars present the appearance 

 of three very regular and pointed cones, each with a small but 

 distinct spur on its anterior and posterior surface near to the base. 

 The molars are of the form so constant in the Vespertilionidce. 



1. Kerivoula picta. 



Vespertilio pictus, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. iii. p. 7, 1774 ; Erxl. 

 Syst. p. 150, 1777; Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. i. p. 4y, 1788; 

 Geoff. Ann. du Mus. viii. p. 199, pi. 48 (cranium), 1806 ; Desm. 

 Mam. p. 141, 1820; Schreb. Siiugth. Th. i. p. 170, I82C ; Horsf. 

 Zool.Research, Java, viii.p. 6, 1821-28; Fisch. Synop. Mamm. p. 106, 

 1829 ; Temm. Mon. ii. p. 223, pi. 56. f. 1, 2, 3, 1835-41 ; Blasius, 

 Wiegm. Archiv, Bd, vi. p. 2, 1840 ; Wagn. Supp. Schreb. i. p. 517, 

 1840; Schinz, Synops. Mamm. p. 174, 1844 ; Kelaart, Faun. Zeylan. 

 p. 25, 1852. 



Vespertilio (Kerivoula) pictus, Horsf. Cat. Mamm. Mus. E. Ind. 

 Comp.p.40, 1851. 



Pijjistrellus pictuSy Less. Nouv. Tab. Regne Anim. p. 29, 1842. 



Kerivoula picta. Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. H. p. 258, 1842 ; Cat. 

 Mamm. B. M. p. 27, 1843 ; Kelaart, Faun. Zeylan. p, 25, 1852. 



Although I have given to this species the most prominent posi- 

 tion, I do not regard it as the most typical of the genus ; but the 

 generic name having been borrowed from it, it appeared desirable to 

 mention it first, and those afterwards which are less known, but per- 

 haps more characteristic. 



The top of the head is very much elevated, but not quite so much 

 so as in some of the other species of Kerivoula ; and the muzzle is 

 a good deal depressed, and of medium length. 



x\ll the face is very hairy, the fur of the forehead extending nearly 

 to the end of the nose, and filling up the concavity of the face. The 

 upper lips are furnished with fine longish hairs of the same texture 

 as those of the rest of the body. 



The ears, as already mentioned in the generic description, are 

 broad, and when seen in front appear like two rather broad recesses, 

 in the further end or bottom of which the tragus takes its origin. 

 They are rather more pointed than in some others, owing to a 

 shallow notch immediately below their tip, in the outer margin ; and 

 the inner margin becoming more convex as it approaches the tip, 

 assists in giving to the latter an outward direction. 



The tragus has been already described sufficiently. 



The wing-membranes extend precisely to the base of the toes. 



