1897.] FEOM nyasala:nt). 933 



Unfortunately the names of these genera cannot stand as in 

 Dr. Major's scheme, for (bt-iiig busy with more important matters) 

 he has ignored uomenclatural rules and has attached provisional 

 names of his own to nearly all the subgenera. But these names 

 being antedated for the most part by the terms of Gray or Trouessarfc 

 must necessarily give way to the latter. 



Using mainly Gray's revision o£ 1867 \ and Trouessart's of 

 1880^ and, without making prolonged uomenclatural investigations, 

 the foUovping appear to be the names which the different groups 

 of Squirrels should bear : — 



1. JRheithrosciurus, Gray, 1867. Type, R. mncrotis. 



2. Protoxerus, Maj. 1893. Type, P. stanr/eri'-'. 



3. Xerus, Hempr. & Ehr. 1833. Type, X rutilus. 



Geoschirus, A. Smith, 1834. Type, X. capensis. 

 Atlantoxerus, Maj. 1893 ^. Type, X. getulus. 



4. Funisciurus, Trouess. 1880. Type, F. isahella. 



Paraxerus, Maj. 1893. Type, F. cepapi. 



5. Funamhulus, Less. 1832. Type, F. palmarum''. 



Rhinosciurus, Gray, 1843. Type, F. htticaudatus. 

 Laria and Pulmista, Gray, 1867. Types, F. hisignis and 



palmarum. 

 Eoxerus, Maj. 1893. Type, F. laticaudatus. 



6. Ratvfa, Gray, 1867. Type, R. indica. 



Rulcaia, Gray, 1867. Type, R. macrura. 

 Eoschorus, Trouess. 1880. Type, R. hicolor. 



7. Sciurus, Linn. 1758. Type, S. vulffaris. 



Macroxus, G. Cuv. 1825. Type, S. (estuans. 

 CcdJosciurus, Baginia, and Erythrosciurus, Gray, 1867. 



Types, S. prevostii, notatiis, and ferrugineus. 

 Heterosciurus, Neosciurus, Parasciurus, Ecliinosdurus, 



Beliosciuriis, and Tamiasciurus, Trouess. 1880. 



Types, S. eri/fhrceiis, carolinensis, niger, Jiypopyrrlius, 



amndatus, and hudsonius. 



The limits of the genera would be those indicated in Dr. Major's 

 paper. 



27. rtnsrisciTJETJS cepapi, A. Sm, 



a. S ■ Monkey Bay, Lake Nyasa, July 1896. 



This is the furthest locality northwards that the true F. cepapi 

 has been recorded from, the East-Afi'ican forms of the same group 

 having been shown to be specificallv distinct (see De Winton, 

 Ann. Mag. X. H. (6) xix. p. 573, 1897). 



' Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) xs. p. 270 (1867). 



2 Le Nat., Oct. 1880. 



^ As Dr. Major has not selected types for his group names, I have, as the 

 "next revi.ser," ventured to do so for him, choosing in each case the species he 

 has placed first. 



■• Alay be considered as a subgenus of true Xerus. 



' 'Illustrations de Zoologie,' text to pi. xliii. (18.32). liessovUs Funamhdus 

 indicus is the Palm Squirrel, not the big Batufa ivrHca. 



