828 Dr. J.E.Gray’s Synopsis of the African Squirrels 
B. Cutting-teeth moderate, narrow ; underside of the body covered : 
with hair, except in M. Wilsonii. Middle-sized or small 
Squirrels. 
a. Body without any lateral streak. 
* Tail elongate, more or less distinctly pale-ringed. 
4. Macroxus Wilsonii. 
?Sciurus Wilsont, Du Chaillu, Boston Journ. N. H. 1860, vii. p. 364. 
Fur rather sparse, soft, dark olive, yellow-and-white-punctu- 
lated, of the throat and underside of the body very sparse and 
soft, pale reddish; the outer side of the fore legs and thighs 
redder; feet red : tail very bushy, black, very obscurely pale-ringed 
and greyish-washed, greyer at the tips; hairs long, white at the 
base, with two broad black and one grey ring, and a grey tip. 
Hab. West Africa, Ovenza River (Du Chaillu): type? B.M. 
Fernando Po: B.M. 
The very bushy tail and naked underside are peculiar. It 
differs from the male specimen of the next species, which is 
nakedish beneath, in the colour of the hairs of the tail. 
5. Macrozus rufobrachiatus. 
Sciurus rufobrachiatus, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 128; Fraser, Zool. Ty- 
pica, t. 24; Temm. Esq. 136. 
Se. rufobrachium, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 146 (misprint). 
?Se. subalbidus, Du Chaillu. 
Fur olive, punctulated with white; chin and underside pale 
rufous: tail like the back, with close white rings and a blackish 
tip; hairs black, with three or four yellow rings: the hinder 
edge of the fore legs and inner side of the thighs bright red. 
Hab. Fernando Po (Waterhouse). Type in B.M. 
Var. Waterhousii. Darker; underside red and very spare of 
fur; tail nearly black, hairs black, with several narrow bright- 
yellow rings. 
The upper front cutting-teeth have two very obscure depres- 
sions, scarcely to be called grooves, near the inner side, which 
are not observed in other Macrozt. 
See Sciurus subalbidus, Du Chaillu, /. c. 8365, who describes 
the under surface as thickly covered with hair. 
6. Macroxus punctatus. 
Sciurus punctatus, Temm. Esq. Guinée, 138, fide Verreaux. 
Blackish grey, variegated with black and white rings; face, 
chin, and cheeks rufous ; throat and chest pale rufous grey ; 
belly bluish grey. Tail elongate, slender, cylindrical, with close 
black and orange rings and a black tip; hairs orange, with two 
black rings and a grey tip. 
