:^7 

 The above description having been taken from dried specimen-, 



I copy the following description of the colour of thi> aperies from 



the excellent account given of it by Dr. Kclaait in hi- ' Fauna Zey. 

 lanica.' 



11 Body above, yellowish ferruginous-brown, or, as artists would 

 call it, yellowish crimson-brown. Below, fulvous whitish, with a 

 dark yellowish tinge on the sides. Alar membranes black and bright 

 yellow or citron-coloured. The former colour (black) confined to 

 triangular spaces between the citron rays along the digits, and on a 

 large triangular space between the last digit and body; the alar 

 membrane adjoining the latter being also citron-coloured. Inter- 

 femoral membrane wholly citron-coloured ; above and below the 

 arms also, the same yellow colour prevails, as through the other parts 

 of the membrane already mentioned." "Tips oi toes brown, the 

 rest yellow." "Ears yellow." "Sexes alike in colour." 



As Dr. Kelaart is speaking of the species in its native country, 

 and from personal observation when in a fresh state, the foregoing 

 account is doubtless the correct one, and the comparatively dull eo- 

 lour which pervades all the specimens in our Museums is due to a 

 change having taken place after preservation. 



The following dimensions arc taken, (1) from a Javanese speci- 

 men very kindly given to me by Dr. Horsfield, (2) from a specimen 

 from Amboyna, and (3) from the specimen mentioned in Mr. Water- 

 bouse's Catalogue of the Mammalia contained in the Museum of 

 the Zoological Society, No. 138. 



1. 2. 3. 



// /// // /// // /// 

 Length of the head and bodv, about . . 19 19 110 



of the tail ." 1 G 1 6 1 9 



of the head 7 7^ 7\ 



of the ears 6 5 5 



Breadth of the ears 5 5 5 



Length of the tragus 3] 3 3 



of the forearm 1 1 1 3| 1 4 



of the longest finger 2 11 2 10 3 



of the fourth finger 2 1 11 j 2 1 



of the thumb 3 3 3 



of the tibia 7 7 7 



of the foot and claws I 3£ 3] 



of the os calcis 6 \ 6 6\ 



Kxpanse of wiugs 10 6 10 O 11 



Ilab. The Continent of India ; Ceylon ; Java ; Sumatra ; Borneo. 



2. Kl.HIVOULA PAIMLLOSA. 



VeapertiUo papillotu*, Temm. nion. de Mam. ii. p. 220, 1835- 1 1 . 

 H _-ii. Supp. Schr.ih. Saugth. i. p. 515, 18 10; Schina,8ynojps. Mam. 

 i. p. 173, 1844; Blasios, Wiegm. Anhiv. Bd. wl p. 2, I s I" . G 

 Zool. Yoy. Samar. no. 5. p. 10, 1849. 



