in the Collection of the British Museum. 281 



Sc. chrysonotus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, P. 873, 1855, p. 474 ; Peters, 

 P. Z. S. 1866, p. 429. 



Fur olive-grey, very minutely punctulated ; back varied with 

 red ; inner side of limbs, nose, throat, and beneath pale, nearly 

 uniform whitish grey ; feet pale grey ; tail as long as the body 

 and head, grey-and-black varied, with a black tip ; hairs of tail 

 yellowish, with three equal black bands. Middle size. 



Hab. Bhotan : B.M. India (Beavan) : B.M. 



Var. 1. Back and nape yellow brown; loins grey. {Sc. cani- 

 ceps, Gray; type, S. chrysonotus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. t. 37. f. 2.) 



Var. 2. Back and loins red brown. India (Beavan). B.M. 



Var. 3. Fur grey, grizzled with a few roundish, irregularly 

 placed reddish spots on the middle of the back. India (Bevan). 

 B.M. 



20. Macroxus similis. 

 Sciurus lokrioides (part.), Hodgson's Collection. 



Fur blackish grey, very closely and minutely punctulated ; 

 outer side of thighs reddish-washed ; chin, chest, belly, and inner 

 side of limbs greyish white ; the front edge of the thighs pale 

 rufous; tail blackish, indistinctly black- ringed, end black ; hairs 

 yellow, with two black rings and a long black tip. 



Hab. Nepal (Hodgson). B.M. 



Very like Sciurus lokrioides, but darker, and the front of the 

 thighs pale rufous, their outer side washed with rufous, and the 

 hair on the hinder part of the belly sometimes also has a rufous 

 tinge, and the ears are covered with short hairs. 



21 . Macroxus philippinensis. 

 Sciurus philippinensis, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 117. 



Fur blackish brown, minutely punctulated with yellow; hair 

 elongate ; chin, chest, underside of body, and inner side of limbs 

 white ; tail blackish, slightly yellow-varied, end black ; hairs 

 with two black and four yellow bands. 



Hab. Philippine Islands (Cuming ; Waterhouse, type, from 

 spirit, bad state). B.M. 



22. Macroxus tenuis, 

 Sciurus tenuis, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 



Fur olive, very minutely black-and-yellow punctulated ; chin, 

 inner side of legs, and beneath white or greyish ; tail black, yellow- 

 varied, black at the tip ; hairs of tail yellow, with an indistinct 

 subbasal and very broad subapical black band. Small size. 



Hab. Java (Horsfield) : B.M., type. Sarawak (Wallace) : B.M. 

 Singapore : B.M. 



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