23H JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIV. 



Type. — Adult male. B.M. No. 15.5.5.195. Original number 

 5,817. ■ Collected 25tli July 1914. Five specimens. 



Dremomys macmillani, sp. n. 



A black median dorsal stripe. No rufous on cheeks or along 

 underside of tail. 



Size about as in D. lohriah. General colour above dark coarsely 

 grizzled olive-grey, clearer on fore-back, sirffased with dull tawny 

 on crown, nape, and hind-back ; a distinct narrow black median 

 line present on the clearer grey part from the back of the nape to 

 the loins. Flanks grizzled olive grey. Undersurface bright bufFy, 

 lighter anteriorly and on the inner side of the fore-lirnbs, darkening 

 to cinnamon buff on the inner side of the hind limbs. The hairs 

 with little or no slaty at their bases. A tendenc}^ to the presence 

 of irregular white patches or lines on the centre of the chest. Anal 

 region and base of tail beneath rich ochraceous-rufous. Cheeks 

 like face, not rufous. Postau.ricular patches prominent, deep 

 ochraceous buffy. Hands and feet mixed grey and buffy. Tail 

 hairs ringed with black and pale buffy, their tips white ; no rufous 

 band extending along the underside of the tail, as in some species ; 

 tip of tail not specially blackened. 



Skull about like that of D. loJcriah, except that the base of the 

 muzzle is a little broader, so that the re-entrant angle on each side 

 is a little less marked. 



Dimensions of the type : — Head and body, 180 mm. ; tail, 156 ; 

 hindfoot, 46 ; ear, 20. 



Skull : greatest leng-th, 50*3 ; condylo-incisive length, 44-8 ; 

 zygomatic breadth, 27'7 ; nasals, 15.5 ; interorbital breadth, 14-8; 

 palatilar length, 21 ; upper tooth series exclusive of p.^ 8"3. 



Habitat. — Upper Chindwin and Manipur, Type from Tatkon, on 

 "West bank of Chindwin near Kindat. Another specimen from Let 

 Syaw, near Kabaw Vallej^, alt. 3,000' ; and a third from Tsibet, 

 East Manipur, 5,000'. 



TyiJe. — Adult male. B.M. No. 15.5.5.198. Original number 

 5,537. Collected 27th June 1914. 



In the synopsis of the species of Dremomys that Thomas published 

 in the Journal some years ago* this most distinct squirrel would 

 come next to D. lohriah, with which it agrees in the characters 

 thei'e referred to. But it is readily distinguishable by its distinct 

 dorsal black line, its greyer general colour, the more completely 

 buffy hairs of the underside, and by the greater prominence and 

 buffy colour of the postauricular patches. 



We have connected with this species the name of the late 

 Capt. S. A. Macmillan, who accompanied and assisted Mr. Shortridge 

 on his Chindwin trip. At the conclusion of that trip both men 



* Journ. Bomb. N". H. Soc. xviii, p. 249, 1908. 



