328 Dr. J. E, Gray's Synopsis of the African Squirrels 



B. Cutting-teeth moderate, narrow ; underside of the body covered 

 with hair, except in M. Wilsonii. Middle-sized or small 

 Squirrels. 



a. Body without any lateral streak. 

 * Tail elongate, more or less distinctly pale-ringed, 



4. Macroxus Wilsonii. 

 ISciurus Wilsoni, Du Chaillu, Boston Journ. N. H. 1860, vii. p. 364. 



Fur rather sparse, soft, dark olive, yellow-and-white-punctu- 

 lated, of the throat and underside of the body very sparse and 

 soft, pale reddish ; the outer side of the fore legs and thighs 

 redder; feet red : tail very bushy, black, very obscurely pale-ringed 

 and greyish-washed, greyer at the tips; hairs long, white at the 

 base, with two broad black and one grey ring, and a grey tip. 



Hab. West Africa, Ovenza River (Du Chaillu) : type? B.M. 

 Fernando Po: B.M. 



The very bushy tail and naked underside are peculiar. It 

 differs from the male specimen of the next species, which is 

 nakedish beneath, in the colour of the hairs of the tail. 



5. Macroxus rufohrachiatus. 



Sciurus rufohrachiatus, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 128; Fraser, Zool. Ty- 



pica, t. 24 ; Temm. Esq. 136. 

 Sc. rufobrachium, Gia)', List Mamm. B. M. 146 (misprint). 

 ?Sc. subalbidus, Du Chaillu. 



Fur olive, punctulated with white; chin and underside pale 

 rufous : tail like the back, with close white rings and a blackish 

 tip; hairs black, with three or four yellow rings: the hinder 

 edge of the fore legs and inner side of the thighs bright red. 



Hab. Fernando Po (Waterhouse). Type in B.M. 



Var. Waterhousii. Darker ; underside red and very spare of 

 fur; tail nearly black, hairs black, with several narrow bright- 

 yellow rings. 



The upper front cutting-teeth have two very obscure depres- 

 sions, scarcely to be called grooves, near the niner side, which 

 are not observed in other Macroxi. 



See Sciurus subalbidus, Du Chaillu, /. c. 365, who describes 

 the under surface as thickly covered with hair. 



6. Macroxus punctatus. 

 Sciurus punctatus, Temm. Esq. Guinee, 138, fide Veneaux. 



Blackish grey, variegated with black and white rings; face, 

 chin, and cheeks rufous ; throat and chest pale rufous grey ; 

 belly bluish grey. Tail elongate, slender, cylindrical, with close 

 black and orange rings and a black tip ; hairs orange, with two 

 black rings and a grey tip. 



