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been hitherto its most easterly localities recorded. I am altogether 
unable to perceive on what grounds Dr. Anderson keeps S. maximus, 
Gm., separate from this, as although he gives detailed descriptions of 
both, he omits any comparison between the two. In my opinion 
the two are certainly specifically identical, and Dr. Jentink is also of 
the same opinion’. 
10. Scrurus ERYTHRzEUS, Pall. 
a-c. Noong-zai-bau, 2/2/81. d. Koomberong, 6/2/81. 
e-i. Aimole, 13 to 19/4/81. 7, &. Machi, 30/4 and 1/5/81. 
Of these specimens all those from Noong-zai-bau and Koomberong 
are comparatively darker, both above and below, and more finely 
punctulated than any of those from Aimole and Machi, and more 
nearly approach the “ 8. punctatissimus”’ of Gray. 
As all the first set were taken in February, and all the second in 
March, the difference, judging from Mr. Hume’s series only, 
might have been suspected to depend on date and not on locality ; 
but this idea is dispelled both by the absence of any patchiness or 
other sign of change in the skins, and by the fact that a specimen of 
S. punctatissimus in the Museum, from Cachar,is dated June, whereas, 
were the change seasonal only, this form should, on the evidence of 
the Manipur specimens, represent the winter and not the summer 
dress of S. erythreus. 
The species seems, in fact, to be peculiarly susceptible to local 
influences, as every locality represented in the combined Museum 
and Hume collections has a more or less different race. Thus 
Bhotan and Western-Assam specimens are dark with a rafous 
tinging, an Eastern-Assam one pale with a yellowish wash, this 
leading naturally into the pale Aimole and Machi Manipur specimens. 
After these, again, comes the darker Noong-zai-bau and Koomberong 
race, which finally grades into the extremely dark, finely punctulated 
S. punctatissimus from Dilkoosha, Cachar. 
11. Scrurus LoxrriorpEs, Hodgs. 
a-d. Machi, Aimole, and Phalel, 4/81. ¢, Jherighat, 1/2/81. 
12. Scrurus toxrian, Hodgs. 
a, b, Aimole, 4/81. 
13. ScruRuS MACCLELLANDI, Horsf. 
a-g. Aimole, 13-25/4/81. hk. Machi, 7/5/81. 7. Loanglol, 
13/2/81. 
These specimens are interesting as being almost precisely inter- 
mediate between the S. macclellandi typicus of Nepal and Assam, 
and the Tenasserim S. macclellandi barbei, Bly. S. macelellandi 
swinhoei, M.-Edw., of Moupin, Thibet*, seems also to be arecognizable 
race of the present species. 
S. macclellandi possesses six mammee, one lateral and two inguinal 
airs. 
r Notes Leyd. Mus. 1883, p. 106. 
? Rech. Mamm. i. p. 308 (1868-1874), 
