118 A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



APPENDIX TO PART II. 



I Description of a new Bat from Java, of the genus Kerivoula. By Old- 

 FiBLD Thomas, F.Z.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department, 

 British Museum. 



[From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, for June 1880.] , 



The specimen upon which this description is based was obtained by 

 Mr. H. 0. Forbes at Kosala, in Bantam, Java, 2100 feet aboye the sea, 

 on the 2-l:th of September, 1879, and is now in the British Museum. 



Kerivoula javana. 



Fur greyish-black, each hair being nearly black for its proximal third, 

 then white for the middle third, the end being black, with sometimes a 

 shining white tip. Ears rather short ; laid forward they reach to about 

 half-way between the eyes and the tip of the nose. Shape of ears and 

 tragus exactly as in K. jugori, the former having the second small con- 

 cavity in the middle of the outer edge, and the latter the deep horizontal 

 notch above the external basal lobule described 

 in that species, as shown in the wood-cut. ■ Dis- 

 tribution of fur as in K. papuensis, there being 

 short shining yellowish hairs thickly set along the 

 forearm, on the thumb quite to the claw, all along 

 the second finger, on both phalanges of the third, 

 and on the digital phalanges of the fourth and 

 fifth fingers. There are also a few hairs on the 

 HEAD OF K. jAvAjfA. proximal end of the fifth metacarpal. The tail 

 and the hind limbs quite to the bases of the 

 claws are covered with similar hairs ; the edge of the interfemoral, 

 •however, is without a fringe. The teeth are quite similar to those of 

 K. papuensis. 



K. javana is thus intermediate between K. jagori, a Philippine species, 

 and E. papuensis, from New Guinea, differing from the latter in the shape 

 of the ears and tragus, and by the absence of an interfemoral fringe, and 

 from the former by the presence of fur upon the limbs, that species 

 havirg these quite naked. It differs from both, however, in the tricolor 

 character of the fur, as they are of a nearly uniformly dark reddish brown 

 colour, though the tips of the hairs are lighter. 



Measurements of the type, an adult female in spirit: Length, head 

 and body 1-93", tail 1-72", head 0-78", ear 0-6", tragus 37", forearm 1-53", 

 thumb 0-27", third finger 3-0", fifth finger 2-2", tibia 072", foot 0-35". 



