(jx'urnd Xofi^s. 169 



"Leng-lh oT aiitonnu- exceeds 400 mm." 



"The right limb bears the crushing- chiw in No. 1, but llie left limb 

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

 :{1 pounds; that of No. 2 was said to be 34 pounds." 



In No. ',\ (from Newport), the antennse measured ooO mm. in length. 

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

 limbs, 1025. 



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

 National Museum, at Washington. — Kih/dr A. Menrns. 



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 greatl.y exceeding the foliage (7 to 8 cm. long) the 

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

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

 movis flowers and fruit not obser\ ed. 



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. villoaa Walt., and V. niro- 

 linn (treene it suggests neither in habit or floral characters. — Charles 

 Louis Pollard. 



The correct name for the eastern form of the Fox Squirrel 



{Srhtrus liidonnan us). 



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

 p. 425), Dr. J. E. Gray described 3/c/r-n>,r;/.v ncglectus 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 ^V. rulpinus and Sr. nnereux, very 

 like the latter,' &g. 



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



*Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



