456 On Tiro new Species of Squirrels. 



resembles the skull of /Sc. Fi'n?ayso?ie, but is much smaller; 

 the rostrum is narrower and the braiii-ease rather rounder and 

 broader. 



Dimensions (in flesli) : — Head and body 190 raillim. ; 

 tail 170 ; hind foot 42 ; ear 18. 



Skull : tip of nasals to occipital ridge 44 ; henselion to 

 hinder margin of palate 19 ; zygomatic breadtii 28 ; breadth 

 of skull immediately behind roots of zygoma 2-3 ; breadth at 

 postorbital constriction 17; length of nasals 13; greatest 

 breadth of nasals, ant. 7, post. 4 ; length of tooth-series 10. 



Hah. Klong Morn, near Bankok, Siam. 



Type B.M. 99. 2. 7. 1, ? ad. 13th August, 1898. Col- 

 lected by Jilr. S. S. Flower. 



The affinities of this species are not very clear. It does 

 not resemble any of the hitherto described forms. The skull 

 seems to approach that of S. F inlay soni more closely perhaps 

 than that of other species, while from the general external 

 appearance it appears to be more closely related to S. ery- 

 throius. Further material is, however, necessary before 

 pronouncing a definite opinion. 



The other species comes from Java, and for it I propose 

 the name 



Sciurus Andreiosii, sp. n. 



General colour of the upper parts, including the top of the 

 head and outer sides of the limbs, black, profusely grizzled 

 with fulvous (buff-yellow, Ridg.*). Each hair is very dark 

 grey at the base, shading to black at the tip, having several 

 fulvous annulations, which greatly predominate over the 

 darker colour. The cheeks and face are of a very pale grizzled 

 fulvous, each hair having a dark base and a fulvous tip; on 

 the chin and underside of the neck the fulvous tip becomes 

 gradually lighter, until its colour is pale greyish white. This 

 colour extends over the underparts, inner sides of the limbs, 

 and surface of the feet. There is a fair-sized patch of pale 

 orange (orange-buff, Ridg.) at the base of each limb. At 

 the base of the hind limbs these patches join in the middle 

 line and spread backwards to the root of the tail. There is a 

 very short but distinct stripe of pale buff (buff-yellow, Ridg.) 

 running along either side between the limbs, and this is 

 succeeded below by a still shorter stripe the colour of the 

 back. The ears are precisely similar in colour to the back. 

 The tail is short, bushy, and distichous ; in colour it resembles 



* Ridgway, * Nomenclature of Colours.' 



