248 Mr. O. Thomas on new 



Dimensions of an adult male specimen in spirit (not the 



type) :— 



Head and body 98 millim.; tail 77; hind foot 1 85 ; 

 ear 10 5. 



Skull : basal length to front of incisors 233 ; anterior 

 breadth 7'9 ; posterior breadth 112 ; interorbital breadth 5'4 ; 

 palate length from front of incisors 12 ; length of upper tooth- 

 row 11*6 ; tip of i. 1 to tip of p. 4 5'9. 



The type specimen is a skin, and has a hind foot measuring 

 when damped 18 millim. 



Bab. Mount Kina Balu. Coll. A. Everett. 



As with the water-shrew, so in this case, the first discoverer 

 of the species was Mr. John Whitehead ; but it is only with 

 the additional material obtained by Mr. Everett that I have 

 now felt myself justified in describing the species. Two 

 skins and two spirit-specimens are contained in the collections 

 sent by the latter gentleman, besides a considerable number 

 of shrews referred to the allied, but much smaller, G.fuligi- 

 nosa, Blyth. 



Funambulus insignis diversus, subsp. n. 



Similar to the typical Sumatran form in essential respects, 

 though perhaps averaging slightly larger, but distinguished 

 by the fur between the black dorsal lines being ashy grey and 

 contrasting markedly with the lateral body-colour, which is 

 brilliant rufous throughout, on shoulders, flanks, and haunches, 

 and is especially noticeable in the lower view, in contrast to 

 the whitish belly. The belly itself is even sometimes washed 

 w ith rufous. In typicus, on the other hand, the lateral colour 

 is more grizzled greyish and less rufous, while the colour 

 between the stripes is almost or quite the same in tone as that 

 outside them. 



Dimensions of the type (in skin) : — 



Head and body 230 millim. ; tail 138 ; hind foot (wet) 46. 



Hab. Baram River, Eastern Sarawak. 



Other specimens from Mount Penrisen and Tagora, Sarawak 

 Everett) ; Tutong Kiver and Mount Mulu ( Waterstraat) . 



Type B.M. no. 93. 1. 2. 1. Presented and collected by 

 Charles Hose, Esq. 



This brilliantly red-sided squirrel seems to be the Bornean 

 representative of 8. insignis, the typical form ranging from 

 Malacca through Sumatra to Java. I have long recognized 

 that these two geographical races should be separated, and 

 the occurrence of a number of S. i. diversus in Mr. Water- 

 straat's N. Bornean collection confirms my opinion as to the 

 constancy of its characters. 



