286 Dr. J. E. Gray's Synopsis of the Asiatic Squirrels. 



Var. Keraudrenii. Very dark bay ; tail-end white. 



Sc. Keraudreni, Reyn., Lesson, Cent. Zool. t. 3. 

 Sc. Kerodreni, Schinz. 



37. Macroxus siamensis. 

 Sdurus siamensis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 478; 1861, p. 137 (Bljth). 



Small. Fur reddish bay, minutely punctulated with black ; 

 chest, belly, and beneath uniform red bay ; tail elongated, 

 longer than the body and head, slender, tapering, grizzled black 

 and orange, apical half bright red bay. 



//aZ». Siam (Mouhot). B.M., type. 



This may be an undeveloped state of the former. 



f. Fur white, uniform above and below ; tail slender, elongate. 



38. Macroxus Finlaysonii. 



Sdurus Finlaysonii, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 

 Fair Squirrell, Pennant, Syn. 285. 



Fur white, whiskers and a few hairs on the tail black. 

 Hah. Sichung Island (Horsfield) : type in B.M. Guzerat 

 (Penn). 



4, Rhinosciurus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 195 (1843). 



Head moderately elongate ; nose produced, acute. Ears 

 ovate, covered with short close-pressed hairs. Cutting-teeth 

 compressed, smooth in front. Cheek-pouches none. Limbs 

 free. Tail as long as the body, pennate ; hair rather long, ex- 

 panded. Skull, jaws much produced, narrow, compressed, 

 lower cutting-teeth very long. 



Rhinosciurus tupaoides, Gray, /. c. 195. 



Sciurus tupaoides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1855, xxiv. 477. 



Dark olive-grey, minutely punctulated; tail blackish, punc- 

 tulated. 



Hab, Singapore. Type in B.M. 



See also Rh. laticaudatus [Sciurus laticaudalus, S. Miiller, 

 v^rV,. ^ IK f ^ " 3V Borneo. 



