274 Dr. J, EH. Gray’s Synopsis of the Asiatic Squirrels 
** Tail moderate, as long as the body and head; fur grizzled; middle-sized. 
6. Sciurus lokrioides. 
“ lokrioides, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1836, p. 223; Horsf. P. Z. 8. 
, p. 152. 
eee Ge oaaests, M‘Clelland, MS.; Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 143 
842), 
Fur pale grey, closely and minutely punctulated with yellow ; 
chin, throat and beneath pale grey; front of thighs like back. 
Tail coloured like back, upper end with indistinct annulations, 
tip blackish ; hairs pale, with three black bands and a pale tip. 
Hab. India, Assam (Gray): type in B.M. Darjeeling (Hodg- 
son): type in B.M. : 
The hair of the ears soft. 
7. Sciurus modestus. 
S. modestus, S. Miller, Verh. Mam. t. 14. 
Blackish olive, very closely and minutely punctulated with 
yellow; head and sides of neck rather more rufous; chin, 
throat, belly, and inside of limbs pale reddish. Tail black and 
and yellow, punctulated, obscurely ringed; hairs yellow, with 
broad black subterminal ring, and with a well-marked yellow tip. 
Hab. Sumatra (Miiller’s type'in B.M.). 
*** Tail moderate, as long as the body and head ; face with a longitudinal 
streak ; small-sized. 
8. Sciurus Macclellandu, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1839, p. 152. 
Sciurus trilineatus, Gray, B.M. 1828 (not Waterhouse). 
Sciurus Barleei, Blyth, J. A.8. B. xvi. 878, t. 36. f. 3 (1847). 
Fur soft, yellowish grey, with a black vertebral streak ; orbit, 
streak from end of nose, under the eye and ear, along the side 
of the back, yellowish ; a small tuft of soft hair behind the ear 
white ; chin and underside of body pale reddish grey. 
Hab. Bhotan: typein B.M. Nepal (Hodgson, n. 33): B.M. 
Formosa (Swinhoe) : B.M. 3 
9. Sciurus melanotis. 
Sciurus melanotis, S. Miiller, Verh. t. 15. f. 4, 5, 6. 
S. nanus, Wallace, B.M. 
S. soricinus, Waterh. Cat. Zool. Soc. Mus. Suppl. ed. 2. no. 448. 
Fur pale grey, soft ; chin, middle of throat, chest, belly, and 
inside of limbs reddish; streak from nose, under the eye to 
side of neck pale reddish, edged above with black; ears covered 
with soft black hairs. Tail dark grey, washed with whitish ; hairs 
yellow, with a broad subterminal band and white tip. A very 
small species. 
Hab. Borneo (Miiller’s type in B.M.). Sarawak (Wallace’s 
type in B.M.) New Guinea: B.M. ’ 
