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lowish ochraceous-buflf. Under parts buify white, somewhat clouded 

 by the slate-gray bases of the hairs. Chest, scrotum, and under sur- 

 face of membranes washed with oc-hraceous buff. Extreme edg-c of 

 membranes cream-buff, becoming whitish posteriorl3^ Tail a yellow- 

 ish ochraceous-buff at base and along edges; elsewhere heavily clouded 

 with a dark Front's ])rown. Feet scantily clothed with very short hairs, 

 these yellowish on front feet, the terminal phalanges of the lingers 

 brown, mixed brown and yellowish on hind feet, the terminal phalanges 

 of the toes white. 



Sl'xll and teeth. — As compared with a skull of Schiropterus auran- 

 tiacus from Banka, the type locality, figured by Jentink,'^' that of 

 S. anioenvs! is readily distinguishal)le by its larger size, broader rostrum, 

 and by the peculiar abrupt widening of the nasal bones anteriorly, 

 which causes the side of the rostrum to be distinctl}'^ concave immedi- 

 ately behind the region of their greatest width. As in S. aurantiacus^ 

 the mastoid bulhe are considerably inflated, projecting backward suf- 

 ficiently to be in line with upper rim of foramen magnum. Teeth as 

 in 8ciur<ypterus aurantlacus. 



Measurements. — Total length, 308 nnn.; head and body, 165; tail ver- 

 tebra^, 143; hind foot, 31(28.6); skull, greatest length, 37.8; condylo- 

 basal length, 35.-1; basilar length, 21>.6; palatal length, li>; diastema, 7.8; 

 length of nasal, 9; greatest breadth of both nasals together, 6.4; least 

 breadth of both nasals together, 2.8; z3'gomatic breadth, 23; inter- 

 orbital constriction, 8; breadth of braincase above roots of zygomata, 

 17.6; mastoid breadth, 19; mandible, 22.8; maxillary toothrow (alve- 

 oli), 7.6; mandibular toothrow (alveoli), 7. 



Specimens examined. — One, the type. 



Remarks. — Doctor Jentink has kindly compared a photograph of 

 the skull of this animal with the specimen Seluropterus auranthicus^ in 

 the Lej'den Museum. He writes me that his published figure is exactl}^ 

 natural size and that it perfecth^ represents the original;'' further- 

 more, that he agrees with me regarding the Pulo Kundur squirrel as 

 distinct. 



NANNOSCIURUS PULCHER Miller. 



1902. NannosciunLs pulcher Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1902, 



p. 153, June 11, 1902. 

 1906. Nannosciurns pulcher Lyon, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIX, j). 53, May 



1, 1906. 



Doctor Abbott shot the type of this species on a small tree trunk in 

 heavy forest at Sakana Ba}^ northwest corner of Sinkep Island, 

 September 4, 1901. He did not meet with the animal again until 

 August, 1903, when he found it common in a patch of jungle near the 



« Notes from the Leyden Museum, XII, 1890, pi. vn, figs. 11 and 12. 



^The excellence and accuracy of the plate I have myself verified in the case of the 

 three type specimens figured on it. Unfortunately, when examining the squirrels in 

 the Leyden Museum, I neglected to take notes on the skull of S. aunudiacns. 



