(j( nf^ral Notes. 169 



"Length of antenna 1 exceeds 400 mm." 



"The right limb bears the crushing claw in No. 1, but the left limb 

 bears it in No. 2. The weight of No. 1 when caught was said to be 

 31 pounds; that of No. 2 was said to be 34 pounds." 



In No. 3 (from Newport), the antenme measured 550 mm. in length. 

 Distance from rostrum to end of tail, 555. Greatest expanse of chelate 

 limbs, 1025. 



Mr. Charles E. Ash has presented this specimen to the United States 

 National Museum, at Washington. Edgar A. Mearnx. 



A new southern Violet.* 

 Viola Alabamensis Pollard, n. sp. 



Acaulescent, of dwarf and spreading habit, from slender nearly ver 

 tical rootstocks; leaves small, sparingly hirsute, the blade cordate, sub- 

 orbicular, 1.5 to 2 cm. in length, the slender petiole as long or twice as 

 long; flowering scapes greatly exceeding the foliage (7 to 8 cm. long) the 

 flower purple, 2.5 cm. in diameter; petals broadly oblong, the margins 

 obscurely erose or fimbriate; sepals small, ovate-lanceolate; cleistoga- 

 mous flowers and fruit not observed. 



Type in the herbarium of Dr. Charles Mohr, collected by Dr. Denny 

 at Sucksville, Washington County, Alabama, in 1852. Specimens col 

 lected by Dr. Mohr himself at Cullman, Alabama, March 22, 1889, are 

 obviously also to be referred here. The habitat is stated by Dr. Mohr to 

 be "dry open copses" and the plant is evidently confined to the upland 

 portions of the state. Though related to V. villoxa Walt., and V. Caro 

 lina Greene it suggests neither in habit or floral characters. Charles 

 ix Pollard. 



The correct name for the .eastern form of the Fox Squirrel 



( tfciurus ludoc'icia n u *) . 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 1867 (3d ser., xx, 

 p. 425), Dr. J. E. Gray described Macroxus neglectus based on the skin of a 

 female in the British Museum. The habitat was given as 'North Amer 

 ica?' and Dr. Gray added to the imperfect description the remarks that 

 it was 'A heavy animal as large as Sc. milpinus and Se. cinereus, very 

 like the latter,' &c. 



While preparing my 'Revision of the Squirrels of Mexico and Central 



^Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu 

 tion. 



