386 On Mammals from the E. Indian Archipelago. 



Teetli of medium size, broadly rounded, very much as in 

 P. javanicus, but smaller. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 500 mm. ; tail 390 ; hind foot 72 ; ear 41 . 



Skull : condylo-basal length 96 ; greatest breadth 55 ; 

 nasals in middle line 19; interorbital breadth 18; palatal 

 length 43*5 ; p A , length along outer side 8'7 ; greatest oblique 

 diameter 10. 



Bab. Kangean Island, E.N.E. of Java. 



Type. Adult male. Original number 2234. Collected 

 16th November, 1909, by G. C. Sliortridge. Presented by 

 Oldfield Thomas. Seven adults and five young examined. 



This insular Paradoxure is readily distinguishable by its 

 unusually dark colour. 



Sciurus notatus madurai, subsp. n. 



Similar in all essential characters to true W.-Javan notatus, 

 but paler throughout. 



Back of the same general colour, but paler. Under surface 

 from the chin backwards rich ochraceous buff, this colour 

 mostly quite clear and bright, without greyish suffusion, at 

 the bases of the hairs, except slightly on the belly. In true 

 notatus the hairs of the throat, chest, and belly are broadly 

 greyish basally, so that the buffy tips do not hide the grey 

 bases, these, even when present on the belly, being completely 

 hidden in madurce. Buffy eye-rings much narrower and less 

 conspicuous. Cheeks and sides of neck below and behind 

 ears dull buffy. Ears themselves also more buffy. Light 

 lateral line broader, dark one below it narrower and shorter 

 than in notatus. Hands and feet similarly clear grizzled grey, 

 contrasted with the general colour of the body and limbs ; 

 wrists and ankles more buffy than in notatus. Tail lighter in 

 general colour, the buffy rings paler, those at the bases of the 

 hairs white, the black rings rather narrower. 



Skull and teeth as in notatus. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 195 mm. ; tail 180 ; hind foot 44 ; ear 18. 



{Skull : greatest length 49. 



Hab. Marengan, near Soemenep, E. Madura. Sea-level. 



Type. Adult male. Original number 2157. Collected 

 2nd November, 1909, by Q. C. Sliortridge. Presented by 

 Oldfield Thomas. 



All the names currently considered as synonyms of S. no- 

 tatus seem to have been given to specimens from Western 

 Java. Whether the present paler form is confined to Madura 

 or penetrates into Eastern Java remains to be seen. 



