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near the base of the outer margin of the tragus is far longer and 

 more pointed ; in the seven specimens of iminllosa available this 

 projection is quite small and inconspicuous. 



Skull with markedly shorter muzzle, smaller teeth and narrower 

 palate than in jjafillosa, all the specimens of which are quite uniform 

 in these respect. 



Dimensions of the type, measured on the skin : — 



Forearm 41. 



Third finger, metacarpus 42-5 ; fii'st phalanx 20 ; lower leg and 

 hindfoot c. u. 29. Skull, zygomatic breadth 8-7 ; interorbital breadth 

 3'2 ; palato-sinual length 7-2; front of canine to ])ack of M'' G'7; 

 premolar only 2*2 ; breadth across outer corners of M" G ; tij) to tip 

 of canines 3" 3. 



Flab. — Calcutta. 



Tfpe.—KcluM skin and skull. B. M. No. 79.11.21.126. Presented 

 by J. T. Pearson, Esq., to the India Museum, whence it was trans- 

 ferred in 1879. 



This bat was referred to in Blanford's Mammals of India (p. 

 341), but presuming on its identity with the Malay K. paidllosa 

 doubt was thrown on its asserted locality. Now^ however that it 

 proves to be different, the locality ma}^ be provisionally accepted as 

 correct. 



G. — On Squirrels of tiik Gkni's Dkkmomys. 



By Oldfieli) Thomas, 



(Published bij ijermission of the Trusteea of the British Museum.) 



The Ohindwin collections of Messrs. Mackenzie, vShortridae and 

 Macmillan contain examples of no less than four different species 

 of Dremomys, and after determining them I have thought it might 

 be useful to give a s^aiopsis of the British Indian forms of this 

 striking genus. 



A. Cheeks not ferruginous. Tail dully coloured, grizzled. 

 a. Belly hairs strongly buffy or ochraceous 

 terminally. — Ear patches ordinarily 

 whitish ... ... ... ... D. lokriak. 



a^. Belly washed with rich ochraceous 

 (" ochraceous orange"). Back 

 without the slightest trace of a 

 median line. 



d\ General colour browner. 

 Nepal and Western Sik- 

 kim ... ... ... J). I. lohriah. 



