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with biiffy sufTused backs, and bufFy bellies and feet. In the buffy 

 phase it is very similar to the true loygerythrus, from which it 

 differs by its light hip-patch and wholly light feet. In 8. fygeryth- 

 rus there is no hip-patch, and the feet are onlj^ light at their extre- 

 mities, and, sometimes, along their hallucal edges. The type of 

 8. -p. janetta is in the grey and white, not the btiffy phase. 



From the local form of 8. lokroides, 8. I. mearsi Bonhote, des- 

 cribed from the Lower Ohindwin, which has some resemblance to 

 it, 8. f. janetta may be distinguished by its black tail-tip, more 

 wholly white feet, and by the absence of the buffy inguinal patches 

 present in that animal. 



I have ventured to apply to this prettj^ squirrel the name of Mrs. 

 Fell, wife of Mr. G. B. H. Fell, C.I.E., I.C.S., to whom Mr. Short- 

 ridge has been considerably indebted in doing his collecting work. 



TWO NEW FLYING SQUIRRELS. 



BY Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museuon.) 

 Petaurista annamensis, sp. n. 



A rufous, white-muzzled, and white-speckled species like P. 

 candidulus, but the tail blackish as in P. yunnanensis. 



Size about as in P. candidulus. Fur medium ; hairs of back 

 about 30-32 mm. in length. General colour deep rufous, speckled 

 with white on the back, more profusely than in P. yunnanensis, less 

 so than in candidulus. Head more speckled than the back, muzzle 

 and cheeks greyish white, whisker-patch brown. Orbits narrowly 

 edged with black. Ears long, the short-haired part (proectote) dull 

 whitish, the long-haired posterior part (metectote) black, continuous 

 with a patch on the head behind them. Parachute dark rufous above, 

 without speckling. Underside uniform pale rufous ; chin black, 

 throat greyish or greyish rufous ; undersurface of parachute daker 

 rufous than the belly. Hands and feet black. Tail like the body for 

 its basal fourth, then uniformly brownish black, the tip quite black. 



Skull with the frontal processes of the premaxillse broader than 

 the posterior part of the nasals, these being about equal in breadth 

 in P. candidulus. 



Approximate dimensions of the tjrpe, measured in skin : — 



Head and body 450 mm. ; tail 410. 



Skull, greatest length 76; condylo-incisive length 71-5; zygo- 

 metric breadth 49-5 ; nasals 24-5 x 14-7; interorbital breadth 18; 

 palatilar length 36 ; upper tooth series exclusive of p'' 15-2. 



Habitat. — Southern Annam, type from Bali, near Nhatnang. 

 Alt. 150 m. 



Type.—-AAu\t male, B. M. No. 6.11.6.14. Original number 29. 

 Collected 10th November 1905, by Dr. J. Vassal. 



