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53. Eerivoula picta. 



Vespertilio apud Pallas. — Blyth, Cat. 109 — V, kerivoula, Bod- 



DABRT. 



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-^ inches, of which the tail is 1-^ ; expanse 10 ; forearm 

 1-^; tibia ^ths ; ears -^ths. One measured head and body 1^ 

 inches ; tail 1^ ; forearm 1-^ ; tibia y'^t^^ ! e?cpanse 10|-. 



This very beautiful bat, which, when disturbed in the day-time, 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 sub- 

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

 Dacca, where 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, mestmng plantain bat. 



54. Eerivoula pallida. 



Blyth, Cat. 108. 



The Pale Painted Bat. 



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

 and much paler iu coloring ; 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. Eerivoula papillosa. 



Vespertilio apud Tbmminck. — Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858. 



The Papillose Bat. 



Descr. — Fur fine, woolly, long, bicolored ; 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 inches; tail 2; forearm 1|; tibia fths. 



