in the Collection of the British Museum. 283 



c. Chest and belli/ dark red brown. Middle-size Squirrels. 

 t Tail black, rarely red. 



27. Macroxus Pluto. 



Fur, feet, and tail deep black ; chest, belly, and a narrow 

 well-defined line down the inner side of the legs bright red bay. 

 Hab. Borneo, Sarawak. B.M. 



See S. erythromelas, Schlegel, /. c. t. 2. f. 2, but with the 

 edges of the fore legs and the hind feet red; and S. piceus, 

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



28. Macroxus rufogaster. 

 Sciurus rufogaster, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842. 



Fur minutely punetulated ; back yellow- washed ; head, shoul- 

 ders, and thighs iron-grey (grizzled). 



Hab. Malacca. B.M., type. 



Var. Borneensis. 

 S. hippuris, I. Geoff. Mag. Zool. t. 



Nape, back, rump, and hinder edge of fore legs bright red 

 chestnut, like underside. 



Hab. Borneo (Blyth). B.M. 



29. Macroxus punctatissimus. 



Fur soft, black, very minutely and closely punetulated with 

 grey ; tail and feet black ; throat, chest, belly, and inner side of 

 limbs bright red chestnut. 



Hab. India. B.M. 



30. Macroxus erythrogaster. 



Sciurus erythrogaster, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. 972, xxiv. 473. 

 Sc. erythraus. Gray, List M. B. M. ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 357 (not 

 Pallas). 



Fur dark olive, minutely punetulated with yellow ; back yel- 

 lowish-washed ; throat, chest, belly, and inner side of limbs red 

 chestnut ; tail like back ; hairs indistinctly pale-ringed. 



Hab. Bhotan. B.M., type. 



Var. 1. Tail yellow-washed. Formosa (Swinhoe, type). B.M. 

 Var. 2. Tail, hinder half, red bay, like belly. Assam. B.M. 



See also Sciurus rubriventer, Miiller, Verb. 10. 



tt Tail dark, indistinctly white-ringed j end blackish. 



31. Macroxus castaneoventris. 

 Sciurus castaneoventris, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842. 



Fur dark olive grey, minutely punetulated; chest, throat, 



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