22 Mr. J. L. Bonhote on 
annulated, which is never the case with those of a bright 
Sc. caniceps. Those specimens in the ‘‘ Skeat Collection ” 
from Singora and Bankok, Patelung, which I have referred 
to* as being somewhat greyer than the rest, belong to this 
species, the remainder belonging to Sc. concolor. 
Sciurus concolor, Blyth. 
Seiurus concolor, Blyth, J. A. S. B, xxiv. 1855, p. 474. 
Macroxus inornatus, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. 1867, p. 282. 
Sciurus caniceps, Gray, W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. ii. p. 14 
(1891); Flower, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 356; Bonhote, P. Z. 5. 1900, 
p- Si 
This species, which has long been confused with Se. cant- 
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. Jt is also found on the Laos Mountains 
in Cochin China, where the type of Gray’s Se. ¢nornatus 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. Underparts 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. Hach 
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. u. 
Scturus caniceps concolor, Bly., Thos. P. Z. 8. 1886, p. 70. 
Sciurus caniceps, Gray, Blanford, Faun. Br, Ind., Mamm. p.380 (1891); 
W.Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus, ii. p. 14 (1891). 
Resembles the dull pelage of Se. 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. 8, 1900, p. 877. 
