284 Dr. J.B. Gray’s Synopsis of the Asiatic Squirrels 
and belly red-brown ; tail broad, coloured like back, indistinctly 
white-ringed, end black; hairs black, with one or two narrow 
yellow basal rings and grey tips. 
Hab. China (Reeves). 3B.M. 
ttt Tail dark-grizzled ; end white. 
82. Macroxus atrodorsalis, . 
Sciurus atrodorsalis, Gray, Ann. & ae N. H. 1842, p. 213; Blyth, J. A. 
S. B. t. 37. f.2; Peters, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 428. 
Sc. hyperythrus, Blyth. 
Fur grey, minutely punctulated; back with a large black 
patch ; tail coloured like back at the base, hinder half whitish, 
with black rings; hairs black, with long grey tips; face reddish ; 
throat, chest, belly, and inner side of limbs dark chestnut-red. 
Var. Throat more or less grey. India, Benares. B.M. 
Hab. India (Blyth). Type in B.M. 
d. Chest and belly reddish yellow. 
* Tail elongate, as long as the body and head, with numerous narrow 
black rings and a black tip. 
33. Macroxus Blanfordit. 
Sciurus Blanfordii, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1862, p. 333. 
Fur olive grey, punctulated with black and grey ; throat, inner 
side of limbs, and feet rufous; tail with numerous narrow black 
rings and a well-marked black tip. 
Hab. India, Pegu and Upper Burmah (Blanford, Blyth). 
Types in B.M. 
** Tail as long as the body, varied, whitish-washed ; end blackish. 
34. Macroxus lokriah. 
Sciurus lokriah, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1836, p. 223; Horsf. P. Z.S. 1841. 
Sc. subflaviventer, M‘Clelland, MS.; Gray, List Mam. B. M. 144 (1842). 
Se. anomalus, Kuhl, Beitr. 69? not Giildenst. 
Fur dark olive, grizzled, closely and minutely yellow-punctu- 
lated ; chin, throat, middle of chest, and abdomen pale red 
yellow ; tail black, washed with whitish, and with a bluish tip ; 
hairs yellow, with an evident lower and a broader subapical 
band and a grey tip; the underside of the tail with an orange 
central streak from the orange base of the hairs, and a couple of 
bluish marginal bands when expanded. 
The extent of the red beneath varies; in some it occupies 
the whole under surface, in others only the centre of the chest 
and belly. | 
Hab. India, Nepal (Hodgson), Type in B.M. 
