426 Mr. G. S. Miller on 



transverse, not meeting inwardly, proriotal lateral margins 

 only moderately angularly produced. 



Long., excl. tegm., (J, 22 mm.; exp. tegm. 68 mm. 



Ilab. Brit. East Africa ; Nairobi (C. F. Elliott,^ Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to P. hecuha, Dist., from which it differs by the 

 very much less pi-oduced pronotal margins, the opercula not 

 meeting internally (in P. hecuha they overlap), the opaque 

 colouring of the wings is more extensive and extends to the 

 anal area, tegmina paler, &c. 



LX. — Four new European Squirrels. 

 By Gerrit S. Miller. 



Among the 275 skins of European squirrels in the British 

 Museum are representatives of the following four hitherto 

 unnamed forms : — 



Sciurus vulgaris rutilans, subsp. n. 



1899. Sciurus vulgaris rufus, Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond. 



p. 6 (part.). Not of Kerr, 1792. 

 1906. Sciurus vulgaris rufus, Trouessart, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 



xii. p. 360 (part.). Not of Kerr, 1792. 



%?e.— Adult male (skin and skull) . B.M. no. 95. 4. 18. 7. 

 Collected at Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg, Germany, December 

 24, 1894. (Lilford Collection.) 



Diagnosis. — Colour much brighter than in Sciurus vulgaris 

 vulgaris, the body clear rufous * in summer, rufous tinged with 

 light smoke-grey along sides in winter ; tail at all seasons clear 

 rufous, usually somewhat darker than body. Brown phase 

 (occasional but much less frequent than red phase) : body a 

 grizzled hair-brown, suffused with mummy-brown over back ; 

 tail slaty black. 



Measurements. — Type: head and body 223 mm.; tail- 

 vertebraj 175 ; hind foot 62 ; ear from meatus 27. Skull : 

 condylo-basal length 4G"6 ; mastoid breadth 25 ; postorbital 

 constriction 18; interorbital constriction 17 ; rostral breadth 

 at front of nasals 8'6 ; nasal 15'4 ; diastema 12*2; man- 

 dible 33 ; maxillary tooth-row (alveoli) 9'6 ; mandibular 

 tooth-row (alveoli) 9'6. 



Sjyecimens examined. — Fifty-five from the following 



* The exact shade in the type between the ciunamou-rufous and 

 orange-rufous of Ridgway, but somewliat lighter than either. 



