SEPTEMBER 20, 1900 VoL. II, PP. 43-44 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SQUIRREL FROM 
PANAMA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
In the small collection of mammals made last March at Loma 
del Leon (Lion Hill Station), Panama, by Wilmot W. Brown, Jr., 
are six squirrels of a form, belonging to the variadilis series, that 
appears to have no name. 
So far as one can judge by descriptions and plates, the Panama 
form is most like Sccurus gerrardi Gray of ‘‘ New Granada.” It 
differs from that animal in being bright rusty red below (S. ger- 
rarai having white under parts), and is of different general color, 
darker and less red, above, and probably is smaller with a shorter 
tail. S. gerrardi was also said to have a small, long skull. The 
skull of the new form does not differ much from that of true S. 
variabilis from the Santa Marta region of Colombia, but, if any- 
thing, it is shorter and broader, with flatter, less rounded inter- 
orbital region. 
The new form may be known as: 
Sciurus variabilis morulus’ subsp. nov. 
Tyfe, from Loma del Leon, Panama, @ adult (breeding), no. 8420, coll. of 
E. A. and O. Bangs, collected March 13, 1900, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 
1 Morulus — dark-colored. 
