in the Collection of the British Museum. 281 
Sc. chrysonotus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 873, 1855, p. 474; Peters, 
P. Z. S. 1866, p. 429. 
Fur olive-grey, very minutely punctulated ; back varied with 
red; inner side of limbs, nose, throat, and beneath pale, nearly 
uniform whitish grey; feet pale grey; tail as long as the body 
and head, grey-and-black varied, with a black tip; hairs of tail 
yellowish, with three equal black bands. Middle size. 
Hab. Bhotan: B.M. India (Beavan): B.M. 
Var. 1. Back and nape yellow brown; loins grey. (Sc. cani- 
ceps, Gray; type, S. chrysonotus, Blyth, J. A. S. B, t. 37. f. 2.) 
Var. 2. Back and loins red brown. India (Beavan). B.M. 
Var. 3. Fur grey, grizzled with a few roundish, irregularly 
placed reddish spots on the middle of the back. India (Bevan). 
B.M. 
20. Macrexus similis. 
Sciurus lokrioides (part.), Hodgson’s Collection. 
Fur blackish grey, very closely and minutely punctulated ; 
outer side of thighs reddish-washed ; chin, chest, belly, and inner 
side of limbs greyish white; the front edge of the thighs pale 
rufous; tail blackish, indistinctly black-ringed, end black ; hairs 
yellow, with two black rings and a long black tip. 
Hab. Nepal (Hodgson). B.M. 
Very like Sciurus lokrioides, but darker, and the front of the 
thighs pale rufous, their outer side washed with rufous, and the 
hair on the hinder part of the belly sometimes also has a rufous 
tinge, and the ears are covered with short hairs. 
21. Macroxus philippinensis. 
Sciurus philippinensis, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 117. 
Fur blackish brown, minutely punctulated with yellow; hair 
elongate; chin, chest, underside of body, and inner side of limbs 
white; tail blackish, slightly yellow-varied, end black; hairs 
with two black and four yellow bands. 
Hab. Philippine Islands (Cuming ; Waterhouse, type, from 
spirit, bad state). B.M. 
22. Macroxus tenuis. 
Sciurus tenuis, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 
Fur olive, very minutely black-and-yellow punctulated ; chin, 
inner side of legs, and beneath white or greyish; tail black, yellow- 
varied, black at the tip; hairs of tail yellow, with an indistinct 
subbasal and very broad subapical black band. Small size. 
Hab. Java (Horsfield) : B.M., type. Sarawak (Wallace): B.M. 
Singapore: B.M. 
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