80 Mr. O. Thomas on new Squirrels. 



but far less conspicuous than usual, dull yellowish ; the darker 

 region below them hardly perceptible, not contrasting with 

 the colour of the flanks. Under surface dull creamy yellow, 

 not sharply defined, tlie bases of the hairs slaty grey. Muzzle 

 yellowish, a narrow dark line on its centre above. Cheeks 

 with the lineated arrangement found in this group wherever 

 the strong red of the sides does not overpower it ; lines of 

 the upper and lower eyelids yellow, separated by a darker 

 spot in front of and darker line behind the eye. Ears short, 

 dull greyish, the lower part of their backs and a spot behind 

 them dull white. Cheeks below ears, sides of neck, shoulders, 

 flanks, and hips dull fulvous, very different to the conspicuous 

 reddish of the allied forms. Front of forearms and upper 

 surface of hands and feet dull grizzled yellowish. Hairs of 

 tail above annulated black and white, with white tips ; below 

 dull ochraceous basally, black subterminally, and white 

 terminally. 



Skull not preserved. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 190 millim. ; tail 158 ; hind foot (s. u.) 41. 



Hob. Nianimaru, Gambia. 



Type. Male. B.M. no. 99. 12. 6. 2. Original number 

 106. Collected loth January, 1899, and presented by J. S. 

 Budgett, Esq. 



This squirrel is most nearly allied to F. JeucosU'gma, of 

 which it forms a pale Garabian representative. 



Funisciurus raptorum, sp. n. 



A dark form of the group, with the red on sides and flanks 

 almost obsolete. 



General colour above dark blackish olivaceous, darker than 

 in ordinary specimens of F. leucostigma. Light lines narrow, 

 conspicuous, white instead of the usual yellow ; a well-defined 

 dark band below them. Flanks dull brownish, scarcely 

 rufous. Under surface dull cream-white throughout, the hairs 

 white to their roots. Crow^n blackish, darker than the back. 

 Sides of face lineated, very much as in F. mystax, de Wint. ; 

 a light orange line running along above the eye, another 

 below it, these being separated by a dark line through it. 

 Cheeks, like flanks, brown, scarcely rufous ; shoulders and 

 hips dull rufous brown, which colour is continued down to 

 the wrists and ankles ; hands and feet greyish brown, with a 

 tinge of yellowish. Tail-hairs above blackish at base, then 

 dull yellowish, with a black subterminal and white terminal 

 band'; centre of under surface dull fulvous. 



