miller] seventy new MALAYAN MAMMALS 23 



Remarks. — The United States National Museum contains speci- 

 mens of two readily distinguishable squirrels identified as Sciurus 

 atrodorsalis by Mr. Oldfield Thomas. The first is from Kokareet, 

 Tenasserim, and is one of the series recorded in the "Annali del 

 Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova " for 1892 (vol. xxx, 

 p. 929). The second is the type of Sciurus ruhcculus, identified at 

 my request. While there can be no question as to the close rela- 

 tionship and general superficial likeness of the two specimens, due 

 allowance being made for the fact that the Tenasserim skin is in the 

 black-backed pelage, the cranial differences are such as to make their 

 separation necessary. It seems highly improbable that the Kokareet 

 animal is the same as true Sciurus atrodorsalis, the type of which 

 came from Bhotan, but the latter, as well as Sciurus gordoni Ander- 

 son and 5". hyperythrus Blyth, appears to agree with it and to differ 

 from Sciurus rubcculus in markedly smaller size. 



FUNAMBULUS OBSCURUS sp. nov. 



(Plate I, figure 2) 



Type. — Adult female (skin and skull), No. 121,640, United States 

 National Museum. Collected on South Pagi Island, Sumatra, 

 November 22, 1902, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Original number, 2086, 



Characters. — About the size of Funambnlus insignis, but tail 

 much shorter. Color darker than in the Sumatran animal, dark 

 lateral stripes obsolete, and underparts iron gray. Skull with un- 

 usually elongate rostrum. 



Color. — Type : back and sides a uniform, very fine grizzle of 

 black and light ochraceous, the latter slightly in excess. Outer sur- 

 face of hind legs similar to back, but that of front legs slightly 

 darker. Crown and cheeks a little darker than back, the cheeks 

 perceptibly tinged with gray. Feet and ears blackish. Median 

 black dorsal stripe about 3 mm. wide. It is well defined, and ex- 

 tends from about middle of neck to lumbar region. Lateral stripes 

 reduced to mere dark shades too indistinct to be measured, or to 

 have any definite color. They are about 10 mm. distant from the 

 median stripe, and of approximately the same length as the latter. 

 Underparts and inner surface of legs a grizzled iron gray. This 

 is darker and less grizzled on legs and along sides of belly, much 

 lighter and with a frosted appearance on throat and chest. The 

 darker gray about matches the slate-gray of Ridgway, the lighter 

 cannot be accurately described. Tail like back but very coarsely 

 grizzled. Above the ochraceous predominates in the middle and 

 the black forms a border 10 mm. wide. The extreme tips of the 



