1918.] H. C. KoiuNSON & C. B. Kloss: Sciuridae. -245 



These last three specimens are unusually dark with the final lateral 

 light stripe poorly developed. They probably represent a distinct 

 form as yet unnamed. 



9647-8. 2? Balighai, Puri District, Orissa, 23rd Octobc-r 1008 (Dr. N. Annan - 



dale) [C] ; skins. 

 9497. S Balighai, Puri District, Orissa, 17th August 1911 (Dr. N. Annandale 



and F. H. Graveley) [C] ; skin and skull, 

 9046. Rambha State, Lake Cbilka, Ganjam District (Dr. N. Annandale) [C] ; 



skin and skull. 



These four specimens come from the meetino place of pemicmti and 

 pcdmcirum and while one is indis23utably the former race, the last-men- 

 tioned skin would, but for its locality, be assignable to the latter. Per- 

 haps there has been some transposition of labels. 



9628. Hyderabad, 1855 (Dr. H. Gould) [P.] ; a sandy coloured form, by no means 



typical ; skin only. 



9629. No locality (E. R. Alston) ; skin and skull. 



9627. $ Chanda, Central Provinces, 6th May 1867 (Mus. Coll.); skin and skull. 



9798. (j Chanda, Central Provinces, 800 ft., June 1912 , skin and skull. 



9797. $ Chichpalli, Chanda, Central Provinces, June 1912, 1,300 ft. (C. M. 



Crump) [C] ; Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Mammal Survey [P.] ; skin 



and skull. 



Funambulus tristriatus. 



a. tristriatus tristriatus (Waterh.), 



Charlesworth's Mag. Xat. Hist., I, pp. 496-9 (1837). 



Typical locality. — Non-cited. Madras by subsequent designation. 

 Type. — In British Museum. 



9800. Dharwar, South Mahratta Country, 31st October 1911 ; skin and skuU. 

 9803. Devikop, South Mahratta Country, 2,000 ft., 27th November 1911; skm 



and skull. 



9801. Sirsi, Kanara, 1,500 ft., 6th April 1912 ; skhi and skull. 



9802. Potoi, North Kanara, 1,800 ft., 18th January 1912 (G. C. Shortridgc) [C] 



Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Mammal Survey [P.] ; skin and skull. 

 9518. Kalakhul (H. H. Godwin-Austen) [P.] ; skin only. 

 9528. No history ; skin only. 

 9526. No history ; skin only. 

 9520, 9519. Travancore (probably eastern side of the Ghats) ; skins only. 



b. tristriatus numarius, Wroughton. 



Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, XXIV, p. 646 (1916). 



Typical locality. — Helwak, Satara Dist., W. Ghats, Bombay. 

 Type. — In British Museum. 



c. tristriatus, subsp. nov ? 



9513. Sikkim (H. J. Elwes) [E.] ; skin only. 



This specimen is obviously subspecifically distinct from others of 

 the group but as there is no skull vr measurements we prefer not to name 

 it. It differs from all others of the group in the great reduction of the 

 longitudinal white stripes on the back, the median one being almost 

 obsolete. The general colour above is darker and the "" saddle " is not 

 specially marked. It is possible that it is not referable to this genus at 

 all but in the absence of a skull nothing can be definitely stated. 



