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Characters. — General color lighter and brighter than in Fiinani- 

 hiilus insignis. Skull larger than in the Sumatran animal, but 

 similar to it in form. 



Color. — The light element in the grizzle of the upperparts is 

 brighter and more yellow than that in Funambulus insignis and 

 F. ro stratus. The exact tint is very close to the raw-sienna of 

 Ridgway, except in the neighborhood of the black stripes, where it is 

 diluted with cream-buff. Front feet hair-brown. Hind feet hair- 

 brown grizzled with yellowish. The light bands on the hairs of the 

 tail are dull raw-sienna, but the tips are grayish. Underparts 

 cream-buff, fading almost to white on chest, and darkening to buff 

 on inner surface of hind legs. 



Skidl and teeth. — The skull is distinctly larger than that of 

 Fnnamhnhts insignis and the interorbital region is broader, but 

 otherwise it shows no peculiarities. Teeth as in Funambulus in- 

 signis. 



Measurements. — Measurements of type : total length, 295 ; head 

 and body, 195 ; tail vertebrae, 100; hind foot, 44 (41) ; skull, greatest: 

 length, 50; length of nasals, 16; diastema, 12; interorbital breadth, 

 14.4; zygomatic breadth, 28; mandible, 30; maxillary toothrow 

 (alveoli), 8.8; mandibular toothrow (alveoli), 9. 



Specimens examined. — One, the type. 



SCIUROPTERUS MiERENS sp. nov. 



(Plate I, figure i) 



Type. — Adult female (skin and skull), No. 121,531, United States 

 National Museum. Collected on North Pagi Island, Sumatra, 

 January 14, 1902, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Original number, 2206. 



Characters. — Like Sciuropterus lugens Thomas, but ear much 

 smaller and color not as dark. 



Color. — Entire animal drab, the back and tail darker than Ridg- 

 way's plate iii, fig. 18, the underparts lighter and more bluish, 

 closely approaching ecru-drab. In certain lights the shoulders, neck, 

 and head show a distinct wash of wood-brown or isabella-color. 

 Throughout dorsal surface the underfur is bluish gray. Tail uni- 

 color throughout, except at extreme base below, where it is like 

 belly. Feet and lower portion of legs so thinly haired as not to con- 

 ceal the skin, the hairs dull light drab. Ears and whiskers blackish. 

 Claws light horn-color. 



Ears. — The ears agree in form with those of Sciuropterus lugens 

 as described by Thomas, except that the posterior border is very 

 slightly concave. In size they are much smaller, measuring only 



