1894.] ON THE HABITS OF AJS^OMALTTEtJS. 243 



white ; fringe white. Underneath, primaries brownish, secondaries 

 greyish. Exp. $ 44 millim. 

 Hab, Aroa, Venezuela, 



65. Heteeocampa paea^s'Exsis, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax grey, mottled with greenish scales ; the collar 

 somewhat paler. The abdomen grey above, yellowish white under- 

 neath. The primaries above light grey ; two thirds of the costa 

 from base darker grey, and also the base of the inner margin 

 darker ; a green shade extends from the base of the costal margin 

 to the middle of the inner margin, and continues to the inner 

 angle ; the outer margin greenish, the extremities of the veins 

 black ; the apical third of the costa broadly amber-green, and an 

 indistinct greenish shade from the costa, passing beyond the cell 

 and extending to the outer margin. Secondaries above white ; the 

 costal margin brown, with transverse white shades ; the inner 

 margin brown, and the extreme outer margin narrowly brown. 

 Underneath, the wings are white ; the costal margin of the pri- 

 maries yellowish, and the extreme outer margin and tips of the 

 veins on the same wings brown. Exp. 85 milli m. 



Hab. Castro, Parana. 



66. Sleba bolitaei, sp. nov. 



S. Body greyish brown; patagia white. Primaries above 

 white ; a brown patch on the costa at a fourth from the base ; a 

 similar spot on the costa at three fourths from the base, followed 

 by two small brown spots ; the inner margin mottled with brown, 

 forming in the female a triangular space connected by a brown line 

 with the inner costal spot ; the fringe white, spotted with brown. 

 Secondaries greyish brown ; fringe whitish. Underneath, pri- 

 maries brown, the fringe and apical half of the costa spotted with 

 brown ; secondaries whitish, the costal and outer margins broadly 

 shaded with greyish brown. Exp. 52 millim. 

 Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 



4. Ou the Habits of the Flying- Squirrels of the 

 Genus Anomalurus. By W. H. Adams.' 



[Received January 26, 1894.] 



Along the whole length of the Colony of the Gold Coast, and 

 parallel with and some 15 miles from the sea-shore, runs a range 

 of high hills with deep gorges and ravines covered with almost 

 impenetrable bush. These hills vary from 500 or 600 feet to a 

 much greater height, and it is in this bush that I obtained the 

 specimens of the pecuhar Plying- Squirrels of the genus Anoma- 

 lurus which I have presented to the British Museum^. 



^ Communicated by Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S. 



^ [With one single exception, the " small brown skin " mentioned on p. 245 

 (which is A.fraseri, Waterh.), all the skins obtained by Mr. Adams belong to 



