KUNGL. SV. VET, AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR, BAND 48. w:o 5. 89 
plate. In my specimens the colour of the parts mentioned varies from the palest 
maize-yellow to rather pronounced orange-yellow. Sometimes this yellow tinge extends 
all over the throat, but oftener the latter is white in the middle. 
Considering the variation I think it is difficult to maintain any difference be- 
tween X. dabagala and rufifrons. 
The cranial measurements agree with those recorded by DOLLMAN in the largest 
specimens, but some fully adult are a little smaller. 
9 ae | x | 
mm. | mm. | mm. 
Greatest length of akull cpa alees crab iene s 3 8 fe) s 52 |} 52 54,7 
Condylobasal » > S wie <tc CRAM BREE AR ce etal ren 18 oe 47,7 47,2 51 
Condylobasilar » » TT ea so be a St eae ee 42,4 42,3 45 
maypomene wide ‘i! VTAIIATRS SPAS PY. soettd ss ~- 30 29.2 
Seeman Patil eld avdld Tey OTC ERII WY . Saeiiis 14,2 15,7 15,5 
Derietly of siden nest op savin dod hh seleiersie, icra ty. Vig 17,7 17 
Widt of palate,inside.m:* 6 ss. s6 2. 6% .4 ofa tele e sh 7 7 7,3 
Length of upper cheektecth ..-... +--+. 2+ eee ees 9,4 10 10,3 
These Ground Squirrels lived in colonies and are rather shy. Their general 
colour agreed very well with the reddish gravel, and in the glare of the sun it was 
not easy to follow their movements with the eye, when they had been disturbed and 
ran for their holes. The vegetation around the colonies was always very scanty 
because the Squirrels had eaten almost everything palatable to them. The locality 
of a colony could therefore be detected already before any burrows had been seen. 
Sometimes a colony of Helogale was found at the same place. 
Myoxide. 
Graphiurus parvus dollmani Oscoop. 
Oscoop: Field. Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. Vol. X no 3, 1910, p. 15. 
A specimen caught at Kutu (between Fort Hall and Embu boma) */; 1911 
agrees with regard to dimensions and colour with OsGoon’s description except that 
the blackish area around the eye is only little developed and not well defined. The 
skull is unfortunately broken so that all skull characters cannot be verified, but 
those about which information can be obtained are in accordance with the descrip- 
tion of the type which is from »Ulu Kenya Hills, British East Africa. 
K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. Band 48, N:o 5. 
