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11-5 ; tip to tip of pustorbital jn-ocessos, 17-7. Pakty : length from lienselion, l.s-2 ; 

 diastema, 0-2 ; upper molar series (exclusive of />'), 0-2. 



Hah. iSirhassen Island, Natuuas (Seirtcmbcr 23rd, 1893). 



No, 33, p. 661), Sciiu-opterus phayrei BlytU (?). 



Fiirtlier material representino- the true S. pliaijrei shows, as we suggested, that 

 the Natuua species is ucw. It might be called 



Sciuropterus everetti sp. nov. 



Size about as in ti. phaijrei. General colour of ujiper surface rich rufous ; tlie 

 head, nape, and back all one uniform hue ; the blackish slaty bases of the hairs not 

 or scarcely showing throngli. Whiskers as usual ; no supplementary malar or 

 su])raorbital liristles. Eyes surrounded by a narrow brownish ring. Ears short, 

 narrow, thinly haired, blackish brown. Behind them, on the sides of the neck, there 

 is a large whitish patch, behind which again the general rufous tone is at its richest. 

 On the dorsal surface laterally the red hair tips hide the slaty black less and less, so 

 that the ui)j(er surface of the jiarachute gradually becomes quite black; the extreme 

 edge is, however, white. Under surface mixed slate, white, and rufous ; the hairs 

 of the throat and chest jmre white to their bases, the others — of body, inner 

 sides of limbs, and under surface of parachute — slaty grey jiroximally, white or pale 

 rufous terminally. Outer sides of limbs blackish, like the upper side of the parachute. 

 Soles hairy under the heels and along their outer edge, the naked part with one large 

 jiroximal and four distal 2)ads. Tail, as usual, markedly distichous ; its jiroximal 

 half-inch bright rufous all round, the remainder dark brown above and below, but 

 on the sides, forming a middle layer, the long hairs are bright orange rufous trom 

 the terminal half of tlie tail, fading gradually into the brown of the tip. 



In younger specimens the rnfous colour is less developed throughout, so that 

 the general colour takes its tone mainly from the slaty bases to the hairs. 



Skull with a short muzzle, short and rather feeble postorbital processes, and 

 witli the petrosal part of the bullae much swollen postero-superiorly, so that tlie uj>per 

 inflation jirojects behind some way beyond the paroccipital processes. 



Molars with the essential structure of those of S. alhoniger, -phayrei, spadiceus, 

 etc., widely different from those of 8. horsfeldi. k distinct p^ present. 



Dimensions of the type, an adult /«»««•&, measured when in spirit, before being 

 skinned :— Head and body, 161 mm. ; tail, 140 ; hind-foot, 29 ; ear, 20 by 11. Skull: 

 greatest length, 385; basal length, 33-5 ; greatest breadth, 24-3. Nasals: length, 

 10'8; interorbital breadth, 9; tip to tip of postorbital processes, 15"6 ; greatest 

 breadth posteriorly, 19'4. Palate : length from henselion, 17-5; diastema (to anterior 

 rootof //), 9'4 ; length of upper molar series (exclusive of /)''), 7'3 ; lower jaw, condyle 

 to incisor tip, 26-5 ; corouoid to angle, 1.5. 



Hab. Bnngnran Island. Three specimens found together in a hole in a tree, 

 October 6th, 1S93. 



'I'upe. Brit. Mus., No. U4.9.2.S.42. Paiati/pe in tlu; Tring Mus(nun. 



S. phayrei Blyth, in the absence of authentic sjjeciniens of whitdi we dared nut 

 previously describe this animal, is now, thanks to the kindness of the authorities of 

 the Calcutta Museum, represented in the British Museum by a skin from Pegu which 

 had been compared with the actual types at Calcutta. This skin, and another ciuite 



