SCIURUS INSIGNIS. 



Ord. IV"'' Rongeurs, Cuvier. V-^ Division. 



Obd. IV. Glires, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. IV. Prensiculantia, Illiger. Fam. 9, Agilia. 



SCIURUS, Unn. Briss. Erxleh. Bodd. Cuv. Geoff. Illig. &p. 



Char. Gen. — Dentium formula ; Primores -f, Molares |=^. Primores superiores 

 pagina antica leeves, inferiores admodum compressi acuti. Pro Laniariis diastema. 

 Molares abrupti obducti tritores, supra antico accessorio. 



Rostrum acutum. Labrum fissum. Saccidi huccales nulli. Auriculce oblongse, peni- 

 ciUatas vel rotundatse simplices. 



Caudct elongata villosa, compressiusculo-disticha vel cylindiica. Mammae apertas. 



** Cauda cylindrica, vel apice tantum disticha. 



Sciurus fiiscus griseo variegatus subtus albidus, striis tribus nigris longitudinalibus, 

 hypochondriis femoribusque taenia ferruginea diffusa, lateribus colli et abdo- 

 minis angusta notatis. 



Bohkol, of the Javanese. 



Sciurus insignis, Le Lary, Fred. Cuv. Mamm. litliogr. 34"' livraison. Encycl. 

 Method. Mammalogie, Supplement, p. 544. Par M. A. G. Desmarest, 1822. 



The discovery of numerous species of the genus Sciurus, in recent periods, 

 has required the establishment of a second section, in which those individuals that 

 are provided with a cylindrical tail, are separated from the common Squirrels of 

 Europe and North America, in which the hairs on this organ are disposed in two 

 rows. Of these new species, some have been added from South America, others 

 from the Islands of the Indian Archipelago ; the latter are likeA\dse distinguished 

 by short rounded ears with a narrow helix closely applied to the head, destitute 

 of a brush-hke appendage of long hairs, and by genital organs, in the male, of 

 uncommon size. 



