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Plemyria bellaria, sp. n. 



White, with black markings. Primaries have bands 

 on basal area, broadest on costa ; central band indicated by 

 a hook-shaped mark on the costa and some dots on inner 

 margin; a broad border on outer marginal area, tapering 

 towards inner margin, enclosing three white spots, one on 

 costa, one about the middle, and one towards inner margin. 

 Secondaries have a slender central band from abdominal 

 margin to middle of the wing, and a border on outer margin ; 

 the latter encloses two white spots, one in the middle, and 

 one at anal angle, and a minute dot above the middle spot. 

 Fringes black and white. Under surface as above. Antennas 

 bipectinated, the shaft black ringed with white, and the 

 pectinations rather widely apart. 



Expanse 25 millim. 



Four male specimens : Ichang, April ; Ta-chien-lu, Ni-tou, 

 May and July. 



flab. Central and Western China. 



[To be continued.] 



LVI. The Ochre-footed Scrub- Squirrels of East Africa. 

 By W. E. DE WINTON. 



THERE appears to be great confusion among naturalists as to 

 the specific determination of the most common small squirrels 

 of East Africa. Dr. F. A. Jentink, when looking over the 

 specimens in the British Museum previous to writing his 

 most excellent " Monograph of the African Squirrels," 

 published in ' Notes from the Leyden Museum, 7 vol. iv. p. I 

 (1882), noticed that the specimens from East Africa were 

 distinct from the South-African species, Sciurus Cepapi, 

 A. Sm.; unfortunately he never described the forms, but 

 includes under S. Cepapi (t. c. p. 26) all the small unstriped 

 squirrels from South and East Africa. 



Naturalists have continued to record specimens from East 

 Africa under the latter name, although Dr. Huet (Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. iii. ser. 2, p. 154, pi. vii. fig. 2, 1880) described the 

 form from Bagomoyo as a distinct species, giving it the name 

 of S. ochraceus. Dr. Pagenstecher (Bericht Naturh. Mus. 

 Hamburg, 1885, p. 42) described a form from the Pangani 

 Eiver and Mount Meru under the name of S. Cepapi arus- 

 censis, at the same time stating that its affinities lie with 

 S. Cepapi j S. multicolor , and S. Aubryi=S. rufobrachiatus ; 

 such a generalized form should surely be worthy of more than 



