﻿2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 



PROTOXERUS STANGERI BEA, new subspecies 



Giant Forest Squirrel 



Type from Lukosa River, Kakumega Forest, British East Africa ; 

 adult male, number 181786, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Edmund 

 Heller, February 8, 1912; original number, 5614. 



Characters. — Allied to centricola, and of the same size, but dorsal 

 coloration much lighter; the rump and hind limbs bright ferrugi- 

 nous ; head lighter purer gray ; throat white, not grayish, the hairs 

 almost wholly white, only dark at extreme base. < 



Coloration. — General dorsal coloration tawny-olive, becoming 

 bright cinnamon-rufous on rump and hind limbs ; crown and fore 

 limbs tawny-olive like back, rest of head and the ears grayish; the 

 hair everywhere on dorsal surface showing black speckling, due to 

 annulation, the individual hairs of back black tipped, with a broad 

 subterminal band of tawny and a black base. Sides of body like 

 back ; a broad band of gray hairs bordering belly. The under parts 

 very thinly haired, and sharply defined on sides by the band of long 

 gray hairs ; belly ochraceous ; the hair on chest and throat whitish 

 to the roots; fore limbs tawny-ochraceous ; hind limbs' ochraceous- 

 rufous. Tail above blackish, banded by fifteen transverse bands of 

 grayish, extreme base of tail cinnamon-rufous, like rump; the indi- 

 vidual hairs with gray tips, broad black subterminal band followed 

 by a narrower gray band, which is succeeded by a black one of equal 

 width and a gray basal band ; tail below, without distinct transverse 

 bands, the hairs annulated with gray and black in about equal pro- 

 portion. 



Measurements. — Head and body, 270 mm.; tail, 290; hind foot, 

 66 ; ear, 20. Skull : greatest length, 68 ; condylo-incisive length, 60.4 ; 

 basilar length, 51.8 ; zygomatic breadth, 39.6; interorbital constriction, 

 20.6; nasals, 19; palatilar length, 29; palatal foramina, 4; diastema, 

 16.6; maxillary toothrow, 11.6; condylo-incisive length of mandible, 

 45.4; coronoid-angular depth of mandible, 26. 



A large series of specimens from the type locality shows some 

 variation in the depth of the general coloration, but the darkest is 

 considerably lighter than any specimens of centricola examined. 



GRAPHIURUS MURINUS JOHNSTONI, new subspecies 



Uaragess Dormouse 



Type from Mt. Gargues (Uaragess), Mathews Range, British 

 East Africa; altitude, 7000 feet; adult male, number 181787, U. S. 



