272 ^Ir. J. L. Bouhote on 



annulated, which is never the case with those of a bright 

 Sc. caniceps. Those specimens in the '' Skeat Collection " 

 from Singora and Bankok, Patclung, which I have referred 

 to * as being somewhat greyer than the rest, belong to this 

 species, the remainder belonging to Sc. concolor. 



Sciurus concoloi'j Blyth. 



Schu-us cuncolor, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. 1855, p. 474. 



Macro.vtis inoniatiis, Gray, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. 1867, p. 282. 



Sciiirns caniceps, Gray, W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamtu. Calc. Mus. ii. p. 14 



(1891); Flower, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 356; Bonhote, P. Z. S. 1900, 



p. 877. 



This species, which has long been confused with Sc. cani- 

 ceps^ and still more perhaps with the next species to be 

 described, is in reality a very well-marked and distinct form, 

 and is, so far as we are at present aware, confined to the 

 Malay Peninsula, where, judging from a large series lately 

 brought home from the native States, it appears to be the 

 commonest squirrel. It is also found on the Laos Mountains 

 in Cochin China, where the type of Gray's Sc. inornatus was 

 procured, and there is a specimen in the Museum, labelled 

 " Sadya," from Col. Godwin-Austen's collection. 



The general colour is a ruddy fulvous on the upper parts, 

 deepest on the median line and the rump, and lighter on the 

 sides and across the shoulders ; the fulvous tinge extends a 

 little way up the tail, but the annulations towards the tip get 

 lighter ; the tip itself is black, each hair, however, having a 

 light fulvous end. Llnderparts light ashy. Limbs, feet, and 

 head grizzled grey. Hairs on the ears pale rufous, and there 

 is a more or less distinct rufous tinge round the eye. Each 

 hair on the upper parts is very dark brown or black, with three 

 or four annulations, which vary in colour from deep ferru- 

 ginous to pale fulvous according to their position on the body ; 

 the hairs of the underparts are light ashy with dark bases. 



The type of the species was procured by Mr. Moxon in 

 Malacca and is now in the Calcutta Museum. 



Sciurus epomophorus, sp. n. 



Sciurus caniceps concolor, Bly., Thos. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 70. 

 Sciurus caniceps, Gray, Blanford, Faun. Br. lud., Mamm.p.380 (1891); 

 W. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. ii. p. 14 (1891). 



Resembles the dull pelage of Sc. caniceps^ but is much 

 darker, this being chiefly caused by the light annulations on 

 each hair being narrower and thus allowing more of the dark 



* Bonhote, P. Z. S. 1000, p. 877. 



