FEBRUARY 8, 1899 VoL. I, PP. 1-2 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW RACE OF STRIPED SPERMOPHILE FROM 
MISSOURI. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
In March and April, 1894, Mr. Thaddeus Surber collected 
twelve striped spermophiles at Stotesbury, Mo., and on September 
1, 1896, one other. I have another obtained at the same place on 
June 1, 1894, by Miss Lena Mastin, making in all a series of 
fourteen specimens. 
Lately, through the kindness of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, I have 
been able to compare the Missouri form with two examples of his 
S. tridecemlineatus texensis, and I find it to be different enough from 
both Spermophilus t. texensis and true S. tridecemlineatus to deserve 
a subspecific name. It may be known as 
Spermophilus (Ictidomys) tridecemlineatus badius subsp. 
nov. 
Type, from Stotesbury, Mo., no. 1682, & adult, coll. of E. A.and O. Bangs. 
Collected April 17, 1894, by Thaddeus Surber. 
Subspecific characters.— Size, a little larger than S. tridecemlineatus texensis ; 
middle stripe of under side of tail, deep ferruginous; ground color above, 
much darker than in ¢exens’s, much redder than in true tridecemlincatus ; 
hairs of belly and sides, plumbeous at base. 
Color.— Winter pelage: ground color above, rich chestnut; light stripes, 
marblings, and spots, buff; arms, under surface of legs, feet, hands, lower 
sides and belly, strong buff, the hairs of lower sides and belly only, plumbeous 
