VI. ON TWO NEW SUBSPECIES OF 

 SQUIRREL FROM SOUTHERN INDIA. 



By H. C. Robinson, C.M.Z.S. 



Funambulus tristriatus annandalei, subsp. nov. 



Type. Adult female. Indian Museum No. 8498, skin and 

 skull (lower mandible missing), collected at Sasthancotta, west 

 side of Western Ghats, Travancore, on 8th November, 1908, by 

 Dr. N. Annandale. 



Diagnosis. A large richly coloured form allied to F. t. tristri- 

 atus (Waterh. ), but larger, smaller than F. t. wroughtoni, R^dey/ 

 from Coorg. Longitudinal stripes on back narrow, whitish, trace- 

 able to neck. Saddle black, tail with white tips to hairs excep- 

 tionally well developed, anal region and midrib to tip rich chest- 

 nut. 



Colour. Head and cheeks to behind the eye ferruginous, 

 speckled with black, richest on top of head, rest of upper surface 

 speckled black, greyish and fulvous, the rump with a strong fer- 

 ruginous suffusion, the longitudinal stripes almost pure white, 

 narrow and well defined except on the back of the neck, "saddle" 

 almost pure black ; hands speckled greyish black, feet with a 

 more fulvous tint. Tail black, with broad white tips to the 

 hairs and a buff basal and sub-basal band, when viewed from 

 above; beneath rufous chestnut basally, black mesially, with the 

 apical part broadly white, anal region chestnut, undersurface pure 

 white. 



Dimensions, External measurements, taken in the flesh : 

 head and body 170 (195)'; tail i&i (172); hindfoot 46' (35); 

 ear 20 (18) mm. 



Skull. Total length, 43'2 (48); condylo-basilar length, 37'8 

 (44'2); diastema 104 (ti"6); length of upper molar series, inclu- 

 ding pm. 84 (9*5) ; zygomatic breadth, 24 '5 (26 7) ; median length 

 of nasals, 14 o mm. 



Specimens examined. Five skins and skulls, four from the 

 type locality, and one from an unknown locality. 



Remarks. In default of authenticated specimens from 

 Madras I have taken modern skins from Kanara* as typical of 



1 Ryley, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, XXII, p. 437 0913). 



^ Measurements in parentheses are those of the type of Fz^/mw^M/wi wrow^//- 

 toni. 



3 40 mm. measured dry. 



* Since the date of this manuscript, and after I had returned the specimens to 

 India, the description of yet another subspecies of Funambulus striatus, F. t. 



