78 ON THE MAMMALS OF THE HUME COLLECTION. [Jail. 19, 



north of Pinang, although in his list of the magnificent series in the 

 Leydeu Museum, Dr. Jentiuk mentions one specimen from Canton ' 

 and two from Nepal", but my reasons for doubting the testimony of 

 these are in the subjoined footnote. 



S. badging possesses four inguinal mammae only. 



25. SciURUS INSIGNIS, F. CU7. 



a. Klang, Salangore. b. Salangore {Syers), \ 8/1 1/79. c. JafFaria, 

 Johore, 20/3/80. 

 This species, like 8. berdmorei, has six mammae, viz. : — one lateral 

 and two inguinal pairs. 



26. SciuRus (Rhinosciurus) laticaudatus, Miill. & Schl. 



a. 2 . Klang, Salangore, 5/5/79. 

 This seems to be the most northern locality as yet recorded for 

 the Long-nosed Squirrel. 



27. Chiropodomys gliroides, Bly. (?). 



a. Jaram, Salangore, 23/12/79 (Barling). 



This specimen belongs to the rare and interesting genus Chiro- 

 podomys, described by Peters in 1868^, but afterwards^ erroneously 

 identified by him with Pithecochirus, F. Cuv. ^, a very different and 

 much larger animal. The specific name, however, to be applied to 

 this specimen is a matter of some doubt. Blyth's description of 

 Mus gliroides from the Khasia hills ", based on a specimen with an 

 imperfect tail, seems to agree very closely with the present animal, 

 and his Mus peguensis ^ is also possibly the same thing ; but 

 unfortunately we have no evidence as to whetlier C. penicillatus, as 

 it was called by Peters, ascends as far north as Assam or Pegu, or is 

 a purely Malay species, and pending an examination of Blyth's type, 

 it is therefore difficult to decide what its proper specific name 

 should be. 



So far as I know, the only examples of this genus that have as 

 yet come to Europe are two specimens in the Museum collection 

 obtained by Mr. Wallace at Sadong, Borneo ; Peters's type in tbe 

 Berlin Museum, unfortunately without locality ; two spirit-specimens 



^ It is suspicious that two Squirrels so peculiarly characteristic of the Malay- 

 region as S. tenuis a.nA S. badging should have been referred by Miiller and Schlegel 

 to Canton {cf. Jentink, 'Notes Mus. Leyd.' 1883, pp. 126 and 134). Probably 

 they were deceived as to the locality of the collection containing the specimens. 



^ The great mass of Mr. Hodgson's Nepal collection is in the Natural History 

 Museum, a few duplicates merely haying been given to the Leyden and other 

 Museums, and it is therefore unlikely that if he really obtained this species in 

 Nepal, no specimens should be in our National Museum, and no reference to it 

 made in his published lists of Nepal mammals. 



3 MB. Ak. Berl. 1868, p. 448, pi. i. 



* Apud Trouessart. 



= H. M. Mamm. livr. Ixvi. 1833. 



^ J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 721, 1855. 



" J. A. S. B. xxriii. p. 295, 1859. 



