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ON A NEW RACE OF SCIURUS LOKRIODES 

 FROM BURMA. 



By 

 J. Lewis Bonhote, m.a. 



(From "The Annals and Magazine of Natural History" Vol. 18, No. 107, p. 338.) 



A small collection of mammals, recently brought home from Rangoon by Capt. 

 A. Mears, contains four specimens of a squirrel closely allied to 8. lokriodes, 

 Hodgs., but so distinct as to be entitled to subspecific rank. I propose for it 

 the name 



Sciurus lokriodes mearsi, sub sp. n. 



Similar in size and general characters to S. lokriodes, but much paler and 

 greyer than examples from the typical locality. General colour above greyish 

 green, rather darker on the back and paler on the flanks, and especially over 

 the thighs. Tail ringed with black and grey and with no black tip. Ears 

 covered with short fulvous hairs. Underparts dull white, purest on the chin, 

 duller on the body, on the inner side of either thigh is a patch of pale orange, 

 and similar patches, though of a paler tint, are situated on the inner side of the 

 arms and at the root of the tail, while in some specimens the yellowish tinge 

 tends to cover the whole of the underparts between the limbs. 



The skull shows no marked differences from that of S. lokriodes except in 

 being slightly smaller, but in its general characters it closely resembles that of 

 the typical race. 



Dimensions (of type in flesh) : — 



Head and body 185 mm. ; tail 172 ; hind foot 40 ; ear 19. 



Skull : greatest length 46*5 ; length of palate from henselion 20; zygomatic 

 breadth 27" 5; greatest breadth of brain-case 20; length of nasals 15; length of 

 molar series (alveoli) 10. 



Hob.- — L. Chindwin, Burma. 



Type — B. M. 6.7.5.10 (o ad.). Collected by Capt. Mears at Chinhyit, L. 

 Chindwin, on 16th January, 1906. 



The very much greyer general colouration of this race will enable it to be 

 easily recognized. 



