302 MR. C. BODEN KLOSS ON 



metacarpal, G2, (63.5); tibia (32.5). Skull: greatest length, 31.4; 

 auteorbital breadth, 9.5; upper teeth (front of canine to back of 

 molar). 12.9. 



20. Petaurista lylei. 



Buiiliiite, P. Z. 8,, I'JOO, p ]',i2, pi. xiii ; iti., op. cit., H'Ol, p. 5;!. 



Flat skin of a male from 90 niiles north of Muang Pre, N, Siam. 

 Collected by Mr. C. C. Wedderburn. May 1917 [No. 2575]. 



The head and back and much of the upjierside of the Hnibs are 

 covered with hair blackish to greyish at the base, then chestnut or 

 brown succeeded bj' a wliite annulation and a black tip — the general 

 colour effect from a distance being grej". The limbs and membranes 

 are covered above with hair blackish at the base, rufuus or ferruginous 

 at the tip. 



The hands and feet are black and the membranes near the limbs 

 are edged with the same colour, sometimes mixed with brownish ; the 

 middle portion of the parachute is bordered with daik brown grizzled 

 with whitish. 



The furelimbs are black beneath but the rest of the underparls 

 is of a colour intermediate between tawny aiul burnt sienna, deepen- 

 ing to rich fen ugin(ius on the hind-limbs and near the edges of the 

 membranes and mi.xed with white on the median line and the extreme 

 base of the tail. 



Tiie distal half of the (ail is black but on the basal portion only 

 the tips of the hairs are black, their bases being dark brown and the 

 middle portions greyish to ochraceous. 



The ej'es are narrowly ringfd with black bordered above and 

 below with ferruginous and the muzzle ajtpears to the dark brown. 



The outer sides of the ears are black, rather grizzled towards 

 the tips where the edges are ochraceous-orange. Tiie backs are an- 

 teriorly (proectote) and at tips covered witli short ochraceous-orange 

 liairs : posteriorly and basally (metectote) they are clad with long black 

 hair which is continued along the sides of the neck to form a broad 

 elongate patch. 



1\ I. vennimji* of the Soutii Shan States diflVrs in h.aving no 

 ferruginous colour in the concealed undorfur of the back, the proectote 



• Tlioiiiiis. JoiMii liiiiiihay N. II. Soc, x.\iii. p. 20 (lit I 4). 



JOLUX. -NAT. HIST. iiOC. SIAM. 



