426 Mr. G. S. Miller o», 



transverse, not meeting inwardly, pronotal lateral margins 

 only moderately angularly produced. 



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



Hah. Brit. East Africa ; Nairobi (G. F. Elliott, Brit. Mas.). 



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

 very much less produced 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, tegniina paler, &c. 



LX. — Foxr neto European Squirrels. 

 V>y Geriut kS. 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. Scmrus vulgaris rufus, Barrett-Hamiltou, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond. 



p. 5 (part.). Not of Kerr, 1792. 

 190G. Sciurus vulgaris rufus, Trouessart, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 



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



Type.—MwM male (skin and skull) . B.M. no. 95. 4. 18. 7. 

 Collected at Kudolstadt, 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 46*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'G, 



Specimens examined. — - Fifty-five from the following 



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

 orange-rufous of liidgway, but somewhat lighter than either. 



