1921] BODEN Kloss : New Mammals. 231 



Skull measurements : greatest length, 50-0 ; condylo- 

 basilar length, 43-5; palatilar length, 21-5; diastema, 

 12-0; upper molar row (alveoli) 11-2; median nasal 

 length, 13-0 ; interorbital breadth. 15-5 ; zygomatic 

 breadth, 29 mm. 



Specimens examined. Five from the type-locality 

 compared with eight from Badjoelmati in the lowlands 

 of Besoeki, E. Java. 



Remarks. This form possibly closely resembles S. n. 

 stresemanni Thos. of Bah (Ann. & Mag. (8) XI, 1913, p. 

 503) ; but it has very conspicuous orbital rings and the head 

 is apparantly less ochraceous. 



All recent writers on Sciurus notatus —Thomas, 

 Bonhote, Robinson and Wroughton — have treated the old 

 names which have been given the species as synonyms of 

 S. n. notatus ; and to put matters on a clear footing I select 

 Western Java as the typical locality of hadjing, Kerr (1792) 

 and biliniatus Desni. (1817) : we know that nohdus Bodd. 

 (1785), plantani Ljung (1801) and andrewsi Boidi. (1901) 

 came thence. And though dschinschinus Gm. (1788) and 

 gingianus Shaw (1801) are bjsed on the " Ecuriel de Gingi " 

 of Sonnerat, supposed to have come from Pondicherry, 

 I have little doubt but that they also are notatus squirrels. 

 If so — typical locality West Java. 



Therefore, of this squirrel, we haNC in Java at 

 present : — 



S. n. notatus (with synonomy as above) West Java. 



S. n. balstoni Mid Java. 



S. n. tamansari Idjen Massif, East. Java. 



All the notatus squirrels I have yet seen fiom West 

 Java are grey-bellied animals, though the axillae and in- 

 guinal region are generally butty or tawny : all the East 

 Javan specimens 1 have examined are entirely butf or 

 tawny beneath. S. n. balstoni from South Mid-Java is 

 described as " below pinkish-butt", but as the hairs have 

 long black bases this colouring is much disguised except 

 on the inner sides of the limbs where the hairs nrc entirely 

 butt' " (Robinson and Wroughton, Journ. Fed. Malay States 

 Mus., IV, 1911, p. 234. Tjihtjap). 



5. Sciurus nigrovittatus besuki subsp. nov. 



Like -S. n. nigrovittatus Horsf. of West Java' but with 

 the underparts a less clear grey, the tips of the hairs less 

 white being often considerably sullied with butt'. Muzzle, 

 sides of head and neck and the chin dull ochraceous, 

 distinctly less intense and bright. 



Type. Male, vix ad. (skin and skull) from 1 amansari, 

 Idjen Massif, 1,600 ft., East Java. Collected on 17 January 

 1920 by C. Boden Kloss. Original No. 8,629, F.M.S. Mus. 

 No. 29/20. 



' I select West Java as the typical locality for 5. nigrovittatus 

 Horsf., and also for S. griseiventer Desm. 



