Uplter sidt'y of foi't' leet with a iVw blauk liaiva on digits, wrists 

 wliitisl), caleanciiin from whitish proximally to ochraceous distally. 

 Hind i'eet witli inner sides buffy, their oiiter sides and heels black ; 

 proximal portion of digits bufi'v, extremities clad v/ith white hairs 

 OTerhanging the claws. 



Tail a1)ove riifescent-buff, the hairs with white tips, thinly obscured 

 by black hairs, wliicli increase on tlie distal lialf where the underlying 

 buff hairs liaA^e black sub-annidations : below almost pure rufescent- 

 buff proximally, the edges paler ; distally overlaid by black hairs as on 

 the upper surface. The terminal, 15 mm., of tail pure white and biiff. 



Skull and Teeth. — These exactly agree with the characters given 

 for the sub-genus by Thonias,* the skull being broad, low and short 

 owing to the small size of the nasals, of which the posterior extremities 

 and those of the premaxillaries are almost in a line. Mastoids inflated. 

 The upper molar teeth show low and rounded ridges : p 'Ms far less 

 triangular than in the sub-genus Sciuropiervs and is distinctly smaller 

 than m^ p^, is placed mesially to it, so that m', p* and p^ diminish 

 regularly in size and their centres are in line with one another. 



Measurements. — External measurements of tlie type in the flesh : 

 head and l)ody, 87 (87t) ; tail, 83 (98) ; hind foot, 19.4 (20) ; right ear, 

 13; left ear, 14 (17.5) mm. 



Cranial measurements : greatest length, 26.0 (28.0 1) ; basilar length, 

 20.1 (21.4) ; palatilar length, 10.2 (11.5) ; diastema, 5.1 (6.3) ; upper 

 molar row, 4.75 (3.8) ; median nasal length, 6.5 (8.2) ; greatest breadth 

 of combined nasals, 4.4 (4.0) ; interorbital breadth, 7.0 (7.0) ; greatest 

 cranial breadth, 14.3; zygomatic breadth, 17.2 (18.8) mm. 



Specimens Examined. — One, the type. 



Remarks. — This is the first example of the sub-genus obtained in 

 the Malay Peninsula, the two other species known both coming from 

 Borneo. We have named it in honour of Mr. V. Kinloch, who obtained 

 and presented it to the Federated Malay States Museums. 



4. LARISCUS INSIONIS MERIDIONALIS, subsij. nov. 



Ttpe. — Aged female (skin and skull). No. 1,909/08, Selangor 

 Museum. Collected at Changi, north-east corner of Singapore Island, 

 by H. C. Robinson and E. Seimund, on the 22nd July, 1908. 



Characters. — Intermediate between Lariscus insignis dlversus 

 (Thos.) from Borneo and L. insignis jcd or ensis from the northern and 

 central portions of the Malay Peninsula (types examined), having the 

 flanks and thighs strongly tinged with rufous and the general colour 

 of the Tipper surface rufescent, not olivaceous grey. 



Colour. — G-eneral colour above rufescent, speckled with black, be- 

 coming orange tawny on the shoulders and thighs and duller and more 

 buffy on the flanks and between the dorsal stripes ; head, fore limbs and 

 feet darker and browner. Three black dorsal stripes running from the 



* Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8), i., p. 1 (1909). 



f Measnroments in ]inventheses are those of the type of Flriiiropfcrus hp$ii. 



