13. KEEIVOULA. 333 



Kelaart, Prodr. Faunce Zmjlanicce, p. 25 (1852); Tomes, P. Z. S. 

 1858, -p. 325 ; Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 146 (1876). 

 VespertiUo (Kirivoula) pictus, Horsjkld, Cat. Mamm. Mm. E.I. 

 Comp. p. 40 (1851). 



Ears moderate ; laid forwards the tips reach midway between the 

 eyes and the end of the muzzle ; inner side very convex forwards ; the 

 lower half of the inner margin sloping forwards and upwards so as to 

 overhang the eye, the upper half upwards and backwards to the tip, 

 which is short and subacute ; immediately beneath the tip the outer 

 margin is shortly but deeply concave, the remaining four fifths of the 

 outer side of the conch much expanded outwards and forwards, and 

 terminating abruptly midway between the base of the tragus and 

 the angle of the mouth by a sudden inward curvature of the outer 

 margin. Tragus very long and straight, extending almost as high 

 as the base of the emargination on the outer side of the ear beneath 

 the tip ; inner margin straight ; no lobe at base of outer margin, 

 but a distinct tooth-Ute projection opposite the base of the inner 

 margin, from which the outer margin slopes straight upwards to the 

 very acute tip. 



Thumb short ; wings to the base of the toes. Fur above deep 

 orange ; beneath paler. The ears, antebrachial, and interfemoral 

 membranes of the same deep orange colour ; the wing-membrane 

 between the humerus and the posterior Hmb, the free margin of 

 the membrane between the foot and the fifth finger, along the 

 posterior side of the forearm, and on both sides of each finger, deep 

 orange ; the remaining parts deep black with scattered orange dots, 

 especially on the membrane between the metacarpal bones of the 

 third and fourth fingers. Both the inner and outer surfaces of the 

 ear-conch are thickly covered with small papUlse from which fine 

 hairs arise. A dense tuft of long hairs springs from the angle of 

 the mouth, and extends half the length of the upper lip ; face naked 

 directly in front of the eyes and for a space around the eyes. On 

 the upper surface the wing-membrane is thinly covered with long 

 hairs as far as a line drawn from the middle of the humerus to the 

 knee-joint ; the same kind of hairs extend upon the thighs and tibise 

 and cover the interfemoral thinly as far as a line drawn between the 

 ankles ; the backs of the feet to the base of the claws are densely 

 covered with short fine orange-coloured fur, which also forms a 

 thick short fringe along the posterior margin of the calcanea and 

 interfemoral membrane. 



Inner upper incisors long, in vertical extent nearly equal to three 

 fourths of the canine, acutely pointed, with a small second basal 

 cusp posteriorly and externally ; outer incisor imicuspidate, slanting 

 slightly inwards and forwards towards the posterior cusp of the 

 inner incisor, which it nearly or quite equals in vertical extent. 

 First and second upper premolars distinct, the second slightly in- 

 ternal and separated from the third by a small space. Lower in- 

 cisors not crowded, distinctly trifid. Lower premolars nearly equal 

 in size. 



