329 



India. It is smaller and darker in colour, hut i-- otherwise similar 

 to the Calcutta specimen. The membranes are of a medium brown 

 colour, darker in the Ceylon specimen. 



Dentition.— In. °^ a ; Can. j=j ; Premol. g j Mol. g=g. 



I can detect no difference in the position or proportions of the 

 teeth in this species from those of K.picta. 



No. 1 of the following table refers to the specimen from Calcutta, 

 and No. 2 to the one from Ceylon. 



1. 2. 



// /// // /it 



Length of the head and body 1 9 



— of the tail 2 1 9 



of the head ~\ 



of the ears 41 



of the tragus 3 J 



of the forearm 1 ti\ 1 I 



of the longest finger 2 5 110 



of the fourth finger 2 3 I 11 



of the thumb .:.', 



of the tibia 91 8 



of the foot and claws < I 1 4 



of the os caleis 6 



Expanse of wings 10 



I I ah. India ; Ceylon ; Java, and Sumatra. 



3. Kerivoula Hardwickii. 



Vetpertffio Hardwickii, florsf. Zool. Research. Java, no. 8, 1821- 

 28 ; Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Comp. Mus. p. 39, 1851 ; Temm. Mon. ii. 

 p. 222, 1835-41 ; Wagn. Supp. Schreib. Siiugth. i. p. 516, 1840; 

 Blasius, Wiegm. Archiv, Bd. vi. p. 2, 1840 ; Schinz, Synops. Mamm. 

 i. p. 173, 1844. 



Kerivoula Hardwickii, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. II. x. p. 258, 1842; 

 Cat. Mamm. B.-M. p. 27, 1843; Zool. Vov. Samar. no. 5. p. 7, 

 1849. 



Fespertilio pellucidus, Waterh. Proc. Zool. Soc. pt. xiii. p. 3 et 6, 

 1845. 



VespertiUol pellucidus, Gray, Zool.Voy. Samar. no. .">. p. 7, I s 19. 



The following description has been taken from the original spe- 

 cimens in the Museum of the East 1 odia Company and in the British 



Museum, and from the one which furnished the descripti t' V, 



pellucidus of Mr. Wanrhouse, now also in the National Collection. 



The examination and comparisi I these bas proved beyond ques- 

 tion the identity of the latter species with A. Hardwicku. At the 

 Javanese specimens are preserved in skin, and the one from the 

 Philippines in Bpirit, thej maj be supposed, taken together, to far- 

 Dish atolerabh accurate description of the specs 



The elevated form of the bead, the concavity of the hoe, and the 



shape of the muzzle ami aostrils are SO much like the >ame parts, in 



