SCIURUS CEPAPL— Smith. 



Mammalia. — Plate V. (Male.) 



S. supra ochreus, brunneo-nigro leviter mannoratus ; corporis lateribus pedibusque ochreis ; labio 

 superiore, stria superciliari, corporisquc partibus infcrioribus albis, ventre flavo-tincto ; cauda dis- 

 ticlia, oehrei brunneo-nigro variegata ; auriculis brevibus, apicibus obtusis, margine extemo versus 

 apicem emarginato ; oculis brunneis. 



LoNGiTUDO corporis cum capite 7f unc, caudcB 7 unc. 



SciURUS Cepapi, App. to Rep. of Exp. page 43, June, 1836. 



Colour. — Face ochry yellow, pencilled with black ; the upper part of the 

 head and neck, the back and the flanks grizzled light ochre-yellow and 

 brownish bla'ck, each hair being brownish black at the base, then ochry 

 yellow, then brownish black, and finally ochre-yellow; some have their 

 extreme points blackish brown ; the upper surface of the tail is also grizzled 

 in the same manner as the back, only the proportion of the brownish black 

 colour is greater, and hence the dark colour is there more conspicuous, and gives 

 rise in some specimens to the appearance of a number of irregular dark bars ; 

 the upper lip, a short stripe over each eye, the chin, the throat, the breast, 

 the belly, and the inner sides of the legs white, sometimes faintly tinged with 

 yellow ; the sides of the head, neck and body, and the outer and hinder sides 

 of the legs ochre-yellow ; the hair of the hinder legs deep black at its base ; 

 anterior surface of ears pale yellowish white ; posterior surface dull white ; 

 incisor teeth reddish orange ; eyes dark brown ; whiskers black ; nails deep 

 brown.* 



Form, &c. — Figure rather slender ; head small ; the anterior molar of 

 the upper jaw very small, subcylindrical with the crown entire ; the remaining 

 four concave, the crowns towards the outer sides divided each into two por- 

 tions by a fine transverse groove ; the anterior molar of the lower jaw semi- 

 cylindrical, the crown divided into three tubercles ; the other three molars 

 on each side nearly similar to those of the upper jaw; ears short, with a 

 slight emargination in the outer edge a little below their points ; the latter 



* The tints vary a little in diiferent specimens. 



