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I have now seen 8 specimens from Madura, collected by Mr. 

 Stoney and without exception, exactly as in dandolena, they have 

 the forearm to the elbow and the lower leg to the knee white, and 

 therefore, as Blyth points out cannot be alhi2:)es. 



I have not of course seen the two specimens m the Indian Museum, 

 but one of them collected by W. Daly is almost certainly conspecihc 

 with a specimen (same collector and locality) presented to the British 

 Museum by Blanford, which in its turn is absolutely inseparable 

 from the Madura series. 



R albipes was, it follows from his description, a generally brown 

 animal, the lower half of whose face was whitish, and whose body 

 colour extended along the limbs to the wrists and ankles, the feet 

 being white. This clearly does not apply to either the Ceylon or 

 the mainland macroura and Blyth' s species can only be one of the 

 forms of insignis, MiUer, with which the description nearly agrees. 

 But with which form the description is not detailed enough to decide. 

 Under the circumstances Blyth's alhipes might be shelved as being 

 unrecognisable in the absence of type and type-locality. 



I have carefully compared the Madura series with the large series 

 of dandolena obtained by the Survey from Ceylon and I have failed 

 to find any character in skin or skull to differentiate the members 

 of one from those of the other, so that the island and mainland forms 

 must both equally bear the name Ratufa macroura dandolena. 



