118 Mr. C. B. Kloss on new Mammals 



Hah. Great Redang Islands, East Coast of the Malay 

 Peninsula (type from Great Eedang). 



Type. Adult female. S.M. 2159/10. Collected 1st Sep- 

 tember, 1910. Original number 3399. 



Twenty-six specimens examined. The series ranges from 

 individuals with the appearance of the type to others with the 

 upper surface a speckle of black and bright golden, in which 

 the dark lateral stripe is completely absent. 



Sciurus vittatus perlientiani, subsp. n. 



Like S. plasticus and S. scottii, but a little larger (greatest 

 length of skull about 47'7 mm.), with the buff element of the 

 upper surface deeper and the tail yellower, the pale lateral 

 stripe broader and deeper in tint ; the dark lateral stripe 

 broader and less obscured. Skull with combined nasals 

 broader anteriorly and the frontal bone with greater posterior 

 extension. 



Hah. West Perhentian Island^ near Trengganu, East Coast 

 of the Malay Peninsula. 



Type. Adult male. S.M. 2172/10. Collected 11th Sep- 

 tember, 1910. Original number 3609. 



Twenty-nine specimens examined. 



Sciurus vittatus proteus, subsp. n. 



Differs from S. perhentiani in being much paler above, and 

 has the rufous of the under parts replaced by buff. The dark 

 lateral stripe is much obscured by the buff tips of its hairs. 

 From S. lutescens and otiier allied races from the Natuna 

 Islands it differs in the possession of a notable rufous pencil 

 to the tail. 



Hah. East Perhentian Island, near Trengganu, East Coast 

 of tiie Malay Peninsula. 



Type. Adult male. S.M. 2094/10. Collected 13th Sep- 

 tember, 1910. Original number 3654. 



Fifty-two specimens examined. The series ranges from 

 individuals of the appearance of the type to others closely 

 resembling S. perhentiani, but slightly paler above, with the 

 dark lateral stripe reduced to a breadth of less than 5 mm. 

 by the superficial extension of the rufous abdomen, 



Sciurus vittatus watsont, subsp. n. 



Most nearly resembles S. suhluteuSf but is smaller and 

 paler above, with yellower feet. Lateral pale stripe much 

 broader and darker, dark stripe much shorter and much 



