226 Zoological Society. 



Schleiden, Dutrochet, Meyer, Decaisne, Von Martius, Lindenberg, 

 Dassen, Morren, Goppert, Mohl, Martens, Berzelius, Fritzsch, and 

 numerous other botanists of celebrity. As, however, the insertion 

 of the whole report will be impossible, we shall endeavour to give 

 some extracts from it, especially those referring to papers by na- 

 turalists of this country. The entire report consists of nearly 

 200 octavo closely printed pages, and is, we learn, to be had sepa- 

 rately. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIKTTf. 



February 13th, 1838.— William Yarrell, Esq., in the Chair. 

 Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a new species of Squirrel from the So- 

 ciety's Museum, and characterized it as : 



SciURUS suBLiNEATus. Sc. supru fusco-oUvaccus flavescentc lava- 

 tus ; lineis dorsalibus quatuor nigris tribus albescentibus, a hume- 

 ris ad uropygium excurrentibus : abdomine flavescente : caudd ni- 

 gra Jlavoque annulatd, 



unc. lin. 

 Longitudo corporis ab apice rostri ad caudae basin. . 6 



ab apice rostri ad auris basin 1 2^ 



. Cauda (pilis inclusis) 5 



' tarsi digitorumque 1 2^ 



auris 2^ 



Habitat ? 



" This animal is less than the Palm Squirrel (Sciurus palmarum, 

 Auct.),but like that species has four dark and three pale lines on the 

 back : these lines, however, are very narrow, and occupy only the cen- 

 tral portion of the back ; they are not continued on to the shoulders, 

 neither do they extend over the haunches. The general colour is 

 olive-brown, a tint arising from the hairs being each minutely an- 

 nulated with deep yellow and black. The throat, chest, and rump, 

 are whitish, and the belly is yellow. The hairs covering the feet 

 above are annulated like those of the body, but of a deeper tint. 

 The tail is cylindrical and rather slender, and exhibits obscure an- 

 nulations, each hair being annulated with deep golden yellow and 

 black. The fur is short and soft, that on the back is grey at the 

 base ; on the under parts the hairs are very obscurely tinted with 

 grey at the base. The hairs of the moustaches are numerous, 

 moderately long, rather slender, and of a black colour. The head 



