1918.] H. C. EomNSON & C. B. Kloss : Sciuridae. 187 



certainty. The specimen from Orissa has distinctly black shoulders 

 and is not therefore true R. i. centralis. Those from Arcot have the 

 red colour paler, the black rump and shoulders more sharply differ- 

 entiated from the red portions of the pelage. 



e. indica maxima (Schreb.). 



Sancfth., IV, p. 784, pi. ccxxii, B (1784). 



Typical locality. — Malabar. 

 Type. — In Paris Museum. 



9594, 9598. Travancore ; skins. 



9616-9617. Travancore (Travancore Museum) [P.] ; skins and skulls. 



9595. South Malabar. Revd. J. Baker [C] ; .skin and skull. 



9595 (A. S. B. 307A). South Malabar. 



9596 (A. S. B. 307B). South Malabar ; skin and skull. 



7102. $ Calathorpulay, Travancore (Mus. Coll.) ; skin and skull. 

 9610. South Malabar ; skull only. 



e. indica dealbata (Blanf.). 



Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, XI, p. 299 pi. A, fig. 1 (1897). 



Typical locality. — Surat Dangs. 

 Type. — In British Museum. 



Ratufa bicolor. 

 a. bicolor bicolor (Sparrm.). 



Gotheb. Wet. Sevensk. Handl., I, p. 70 (1778). 



Typical locality. — Anjer, West Java. 

 Type. — Not in existence. 



7785 iinm. No locality ; skin and skull. 



cJ Tjibodas, Gedeh, 5,000 ft.. West Java, 2nd March 1916 ; skin and skull 

 (H. C. Robinson) [C] ; Federated Malay States Museum [P.]. 



Miller {Proc. Biol. Soc, Washington, XXIV, p. 28; 1911) has de- 

 scribed from the above locality a mountain race of this species as Batuja 

 bicolor major, but the measurements of a large series do not confirm his 

 conclusions and we have not therefore recognised his subspecies. 



b. bicolor baliensis, Thos. 



Ann. Maij. Nat Hist., (8), XI, p. 506 (1913). 



Typical locality. — Tjetoekambawang, Bali. 

 Type. — In British Museum. 



? Sodong Jerok, Idjen Massif, 3,900 ft., near Banjocwangi, East Java, 9th 

 April 1916 ; Federated Malay States Museum [P.] ; skin and skull. 



Though originally described from Bali, this is merely the eastern 

 Java form of the preceding and is the one on which Horsfield's descrip- 

 tions have been founded. 



