102 Mv. 0. Thomas on neio 



II. gamhianus, O^. — General colour sandy fawn, without 

 suffusion of rufous ; underparts white. Hah. W.Africa, 

 Gambia to Nigeria. 



//. t'sabellinus, Gray. — General colour darker grizzled grey- 

 brown, a certain buffy suffusion both in the upper and 

 ventral colours. IJab. Angola. 

 Dr. Ansorge obtained at Canhoca, N. Angola, a specimen 



agreeing closely with Gray's type of isahellinus, of which no 



exact locality had previously been recorded. 



H. rhodesice, Wrought.* — Clear grizzled grey throughout, 

 with scarcely any yellowish or buffy suffusion; under 

 surface white ; tips of tail-hairs prominently white. 

 Bab. Northern Khodesia and neighbouring parts of 

 S.E. Congo State. 



H. multicolor^ Riipp. — General colour riclier and darker than 

 in the western forms. Under surface more or less 

 suffused with rufous, which sometimes covers the whole 

 of the belly, inner side of limbs, and base of tail, and 

 is sometimes restricted to the anal region. Hah. 

 Abyssinia. 

 Allied to this, and, as I consider, subspecies of it, are 



Neumann's //. kaffensis and abassensi's. 



II. hongensis, Heugl. — Distinguishable from all other mem- 

 bers of the group by its small size, its skull being 

 conspicuously smaller than in multicolor and its nasals 

 shorter. General colour pale grizzled sandy above, 

 greyer on the sides, white below, the anal region tawny 

 or ochraceous. Hah. Bahr-el-Gazal, ranging west- 

 wards to the Shari R. 



The following four new forms may be described as sub- 

 species of H. multicolor : — 



Ileliosciurus multicolor lateris, subsp. n. 



General characters of true multicolor, but paler throughout. 



Colour almost as in H. bongensis, the general tone clear 

 greyish, with but little buffy suffusion. Belly and inner 

 sides of limbs white, no buffy present, not even along the 



* Fnnisciurus annulatus rhodesus, Wroughton, Mem. Mancliester Soc. 

 li. no. 5, p. 15 (1907). 



