sciURUS (rheithrosciurus) microtis. 41 



Gray's »macrotis'\ by not having large ears with a pencil 

 of elongated hairs, by its different colouration, shorter 

 tail and finally by its small size (Gray's » macron's" measu- 

 res 24 inches = 608 mm.). 



The species also being new for science, I propose to 

 name it 



Sciurus [Rheithrosciurus) microtis , n. sp. 



n. i. kalabientien. 



This species agrees with Sciurus nigrovittatus ^) in the 

 distribution of the external marks. 



General colour tawny blackish. On the back the 

 hairs are black with two tawny rings ; a few ones are 

 entirely black. On the upperpart of the head and out- 

 side of legs , feet and hands the hairs have only one 

 tawny ring. On each side of the body is a tawny 

 lateral streak, consisting of black hairs with long tawuy 

 tips. The sides of the body present a darker colour 

 than the upperparts of the back , each hair being here 

 black with a very minute tawny tip. Chin, throat, chest, 

 belly and inside of legs with a beautiful reddish tint, 

 produced by the long reddish tawny coloured tips of the 

 brownish black hairs. 



Tail shorter than head and body. The hairs are here 

 black with three tawny rings; underparts of the tail near 

 the root and circumference of anus more reddish. A circle 

 around the eyes feeble reddish coloured. In-and outside 

 of the very short ears closely covered with short reddish 

 brown hairs. 



1) This species is the Sciurus plantanl in perfect state of colouration, as 

 clearly is exposed in «Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der 

 Ned. O. I. bezittingen, 1839 — 44, p 95", and as can be stated by the large 

 collection in the Leyden Museum. I don't know how many specimens of the 

 species in question there were in the British Museum when Gray wrotes his 

 «Synopsis of Asiatic Squirrels", but I am sure that, if Gray had before stu- 

 died our collection of about sixty specimens, he would not have admitted in 

 the above mentioned Synopsis, the nigrovittatus and platani (lege plantani) as 

 two different species. 



Notes trona tlie Leyden IMixseum. 



