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4 j in. ; tibia || in. ; foot with claws £ in. : ears anteally, from lower- 

 most base, f in. ; and externally hairy for the basal half. Fur mode- 

 rately long, soft, and straight, or a little wavy ; of a pale fulvescent 

 or whitish-fulvous colour, more or less tinged with maronne or vinous 

 on the back : the membranes dusky, marked along the digits as in 

 Kerivoula picta, but the brighter colour spreading less upon the 

 membrane, though the interfemoral is chiefly or wholly of this hue. 

 There is a considerable growth of hair upon the basal half of the inter- 

 femoral membrane above, also along the tibia, and especially upon the 

 toes : the face likewise is hairy around the eyes, and on the muzzle. 

 Ears triangular and obtusely pointed : the tragus broad and semi-cir- 

 cular, and suddenly narrowing at tip. Lastly, the dentition exhibits 

 a peculiarity ; this animal having a short, flat, obtusely trilobate or 

 quadrilobate second pair of upper incisors, situate posteriorly to the 

 usual large pair, and immediately behind the contact of each of tbe 

 latter and the canine of the same side. This we have seen in no other 

 species. Hab. Central India, Ceylon, and doubtless the intervening 

 hilly country. 



Kerivoula picta, Gray ; Vespertilio pictus, Pallas (originally 

 described from Ceylon) ; V, kerivoula, Boddaert : Kehal voula, Cingh. 

 (Kelaart). Specimens sent dry and in spirit by Dr. Templeton and 

 Mr. Layard are perfectly identical in species with one received from 

 Java ; and Dr. Cantor met with this species also at Pinang. Schinz 

 gives it from Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and, doubtfully, Ceylon. Mr. 

 Layard says of it, " I have only met with this species about Colombo 

 in any abundance, and I obtained one solitary specimen at Ambe- 

 gamoa." Mr. Gray notices a K. Sykesi (we believe still undescribed), 

 from " India, Calcutta ;" this we do not know : but in Lower Bengal 

 (where apparently very rare) and in Central India, there is a fine 

 species of nearly the same remarkable colouring, which is likely to be 

 sometimes mistaken for K. picta, though differing from it in many 

 particulars. It appears to be Vespertilio formosus, Hodgson, J. A. 

 S. IV, 700, assigned by Mr. Gray to his Kerivoula, though impro- 

 perly if it be the species here referred to, which accords in the number 

 of its teeth with Mr. Hodgson's description, supposing that its 

 exceedingly minute second upper prsemolar was overlooked. This 

 species and K. picta and Nycticejus Tickelli present the same 



