Rodents from West Africa, &c, 201 



by Dobson, who drew up his account from the example ob- 

 tained by the E,ev. G. Brown in the Duke of York Group, 

 and practically ignored the type, which is not in very good 

 condition. Now, however, 1 have examined two specimens 

 from New Guinea which agree precisely with the original 

 example in their dimensions and are equally smaller than the 

 many Solomon Island specimens in the Museum Collection. 

 There does not seem to be any difference in the more important 

 characters of the tragus, ear, &c., and I have therefore thought 

 it best to regard the eastern form as only a subspecies o£ 

 E. nigrescens. 



Fumsciurus Pembertoni, sp. n. 



A member of the F. pyrrhopus group, with greyish body 

 and bright fulvous limbs. 



Size probably equalling that of F. pyrrhopus, but the 

 typical and only specimen is immature. General colour 

 above pale olive-grey, quite different to the dark olivaceous 

 of F. pyrrhopus. Head like back, without any rufous. Eye- 

 lids white. Ears comparatively large, the lower half of their 

 backs and a patch on the head behind them prominently pure 

 white; their ends behind blackish. Sides with the usual 

 white line present but not conspicuous, a slight darkening of 

 the body-colour perceptible below it. Flaniis clearer grey. 

 Under surface from chin to anus and inner sides of limbs 

 pure snowy white. Arms and upper surface of hands, legs 

 (but not thighs), and upper surface of feet rich orange- fulvous, 

 much paler than the deep fulvous found in F. pyrrhopus. 

 Tail-hairs grey, with black subterminal rings and white tips, 

 those of the end with broad black tips ; below the centre 

 line of the tail is greyish, gradually becoming rich fulvous 

 terminally. 



Dimensions of the type (young) : — 



Head and body 138 mm.; tail 127 ; hind foot 37; ear 14. 



Skull : greatest length 41 ; combined length of m^ and 

 vit" 3-9. 



Elab. Dondo, Cuanza R., Angola. 



Type. Half-grown female. Collected 9th June, 1901, by 

 C. Hubert Pemberton. 



This brightly marked squirrel, the Angolan representative 

 of F. pyrrhopus, is readily distinguishable from that species 

 by the entire absence of rufous from the head, by its much 

 longer ears, the white ear-patches, and the different tone of 

 the rufous of the limbs. No other known species is at all 

 like it. 



