13. KEKIVOTJLA. 335 



The type specimen has suffered from long soaking in weak alcohol, 

 which has denuded it of much of its fur, and it is possible that the 

 anterior extremities may have had short hairs clothing them as in 

 K. lanosa, especially as some hairs are found still adhering to the 

 outer margin of (toe wing. 



a. cJ (not full-grown), al. Madras or South Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



3. Kerivoula africana. 



Ears and tragus almost quite similar to those of K. hardwicMi, 

 hut longer than the head ; thumb shorter ; wings from the base of 

 the toes. 



The fur extends upon the base only of the interfemoral membrane 

 and along the legs to the backs of the feet ; a few fine hairs extend 

 along the calcanea and margin of the interfemoral membrane, but 

 not so thickly as to form a fringe. The face is nearly naked between 

 the eyes, but long hairs arise from the glandular eminences in front, 

 and also form a fringe along the margin of the lips. 



On the upper surface the fur is dark brown at the base, the ex- 

 tremities greyish brown ; beneath similar, but paler. 



Inner upper incisor on each side long, with a distinct outer cusp ; 

 outer incisor unicuspidate, exceeding the outer cusp of the inner 

 incisor, and nearly equalling that tooth in vertical extent. I'irst 

 upper premolar smaller than the third and equal to the second pre- 

 molar ; lower premolars equal. 



Length (of the type, a <3 , preserved in alcohol), head and body 

 l"-35, tail l"-35, head 0"-5, ear 0"-o, tragus 0"-3, forearm 1"-1, 

 thumb 0"-2, third finger 2"-15, fifth finger l"-6, tibia 0"-45, cal- 

 caneum 0"-5, foot 0"-25. 



Hub. East coast of Africa (Zanzibar). 



Type in the collection of the Paris Museum. 



This is the smallest species of Kerivoula as yet described. It re- 

 sembles K. hardwicJcii very closely in general form, but may be at 

 once distinguished by the upper incisors. 



4. Kerivoula hardwickii. 



Vespertilio hardwickii, ITors/ield, Zool. Researches in Java (1825) ; 



Temm. Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 222 (1841) ; Wagner, Suppl. Schreh. 



Smigeth. v. p. 736 (1865) ; Bohson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 148, 



figs, a, h, c (1876). 

 Kerivoula hardwickii, Gray, A. & M. N. H. x. p. 268 (1842). 

 Kerivoula fusca, Dohson, P. A. 8. B. 1871, p. 215. 



About the same size as K. picta, from which it is at once distin- 

 giushed by the almost uniform colour of the fur and membranes. 

 Ears larger than those of that species ; laid forwards the tips extend 

 nearly to the end of the muzzle ; the inner margin forms almost a 

 regular arc of a small circle from the base to the tip ; the tips are 

 rounded, and immediately beneath them is a short but deep con- 

 cavity occupying the upper fourth of the outer margin ; below this 



