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C. — Underside white ... ... ... F. palmarum, L. 



a. Face more or less bright ferruginous. 



a. All three dorsal stripes buff ... I'. p. ijahnarum, L, 

 h. At least the median dorsal stripe 

 white. 

 a,\ Median dorsal stripe buffy 



white, laterals biiff. . . ... F. ip. favonicus^ 



subsp. nov. 

 V'. Median dorsal- stripe clear 

 white, laterals white or buffy 

 white ... ... ... F. p. Jcelaarti, 



Layard- 

 h. Face not ferruginous. 



a\ Colour paler, central dorsal stripe 



buff ... ... ... F.p. hrodiei, Blyth. 



6\ Colour darker, central dorsal stripe 



white ... ... ... F. p. olympkis, 



subsp. nov. 



Funamhulus layardi, 'Bljth. 



A markedly distinct species, recognisable at sight by its ferrugi- 

 nous under surface. It would seem to be a trifle smaller than the 

 members of the F. palmarum group. Blyth and Kelaart concar in 

 limiting it to the high central part of Ceylon. Jerdon states that 

 it is found in the mountains of Travancore, but we have failed to 

 trace any reliable record of its occurrence outside the Island. 



Funamhulus Jcathleeno}. 



nom. nov. 



Funamhulus trilineatus, Ryley, Kesults No. VI., Journ. B. N. 

 H, S, 1914, p. 662. 



At the suggestion of Mr. G. S. Miller we have again looked up 

 the question as to whether Kelaart's name, which was evidently first 

 given under a misapprehension, is available for the Ceylon represent- 

 ative of the S. Indian F. sublineahcs. On the ground that Kelaart 

 in 1862 (Prodr. Faun, Zeyl., p. 54) described the Singhalese form 

 under this name, even though considering it the same as the S. Indian 

 one, Miss Ryley used the name when she gave an account of the 

 differences that distinguish the two forms. 



But by the technical rule under which a name, even if without 

 description, receives status by being placed as a synonym of an 

 earlier one, trilineatus was not a nomen nudum on its first appear- 

 ance, and could not therefore be used later for another form. 



This first appearance was in 1849, when Blyth in discussing 

 Sciurus layardi ( J. A. S. B., XVIII, p. 602), speaks of " nearly 

 as in 8c. trilineatus ( vel Belessertiy, thus making triliniatus a 

 synonym of delesserti, which is itself a synonym of suhlineatus 



