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Skull: Occipito-nasal length, 38.2; intertemporal width, 13.4; zygo- 

 matic width, 22.5; length of nasals, 10.7; length of upper molar series, 

 6.1; length of mandible, 17.2; length of lower molar series, 6.2. Ex 

 type in United States National Museum. 



1 Genus Eutamias. 



Eutamias Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. in Bull. Soc. d'Etudes Sci. 

 d'Angers, X, 1880, p. 86. Type, Sciurus striatus asiaticus 

 Gmelin. 



Eutamias merriami meridionalis Nelson and Goldman. 



Eutamias merriami meridionalis Nels. and Goldm., Proc. Biol. Soc., 

 XXII, 1909, p. 23. 



Type locality. Aguaje de San Esteban, about 25 miles northwest 

 of San Ignacio, Lower California. 



Genl. Char. Similar to E. m. obscura, but smaller and grayer. 



Color. Top of head grizzled gray and brown and bordered with 

 reddish brown; reddish brown stripe through eye, and one from cheek 

 to below eye; dorsal stripe rusty brown becoming blackish on lower 

 back; middle pair of stripes rusty brown like median; inner pair of 

 light stripes gray; outer pair paler gray; flanks and outer side of arms 

 pale buff; rump and outer side of legs pale grizzled gray; hands and 

 feet and front of arms pale gray tinged with buffy; tail above blackish 

 washed with buffy gray and margined with white, beneath rusty- 

 rufous with a black margin edged with white. Ex type in United 

 States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 237; tail, 117; hind foot, 33. 

 Skull: Occipito-nasal length, 35.4; Hensel, 28.7; zygomatic width, 

 18.2; intertemporal width, 12; length of nasals, 9.6; length of upper 

 molar series, 5.2; length of mandible, 16.2; length of lower molar 

 series, 5. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Eutamias ludibundus Hollister. 



Eutamias ludibundus Hollister, Smith. Misc. Coll., LVI, No. 26, 1911, 

 p. i. 



Type locality. Yellowhead Lake, British Columbia. Altitude, 

 3700 feet. 



Genl. Char. Nearest to E. luteiventris but larger, flanks darker; 

 yellow on underparts absent. 



Color. Top of head, rump and outer side of hind legs grizzled hair- 

 brown; five black dorsal stripes; two inner light stripes grayish; 



1 Employed as a subgenus in the Check-List, p. 85. 



