344 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON [ Nov, 28, 
21. MeLEs ANAKUMA 'Temm. 
3d. 312, 313. @. 295. Jinrio, Tokushima Ken, Shikoku. 
500’. 
Ss. 403, 404. Takamori, Kumamoto, Kiushiu. 
“Not uncommon. The peasants secure them by smoking them 
out of their holes.” —J/. P. A. 
22, PRYAURISTA LEUCOGENYS T’emm. 
6. 231, 234, 240. 9. 253. Washikaguchi, Nara Ken, Hondo. 
3. 477. 9. 479, 480, 481. Mitai, Miyasaki, Kiushiu. 
The specimens from Kiushiu are nearly topotypical, but are 
less similar to the Nagasaki skin which I provisionally took as 
typical when recently writing on the subject, than to the form 
from Shikoku which I described as P. 0. tose*. Further material 
from different localities will be needed before the races of this 
interesting and variable animal can be satisfactorily understood. 
“The large Flying Squirrel is well-known in this region 
(Washikaguchi), and is probably as plentiful as anywhere in 
Japan, It is found in the large Cryptomerias and other trees 
which grow about some of the temples and shrines and are never 
cut. The specimens were all purchased from peasants, who 
brought them to me. The people say that this animal possesses 
great control over its ‘ flight,’ being able to turn almost at right 
angles while in mid-air. Japanese literary ‘ Musasabi,’ but called 
‘ Bandari’ in this locality.” P. A: 
“ At Mitai, Kiushiu, they lived in numbers in a grove of 
Cryptomerias surrounding a temple. On the evening of April 21 
they appeared about 7.30, when darkness was coming on. The 
first I saw alighted noiselessly on a trunk near me and immediately 
ascended rapidly among the branches. Another I saw ‘ fly’ from 
near the top of a Cryptomeria, make almost a half-circle past a 
cluster of trees, and alight some 40 ft. from the ground on another 
Cryptomeria. The ‘flight’ is swift, but we had time to notice 
that the tail is held nearly straight out behind.”—J/. P. A. 
23. ScIUROPTERUS MOMONGA AMYGDALI 7, subsp. n. 
3g. 257, 259. Q. 258, 260, 261, 262. Washikaguchi, Nara 
Ken, Southern Central Hondo. 
The Flying Squirrel received by the British Museum in 1844 
from the agent of the Leyden Museum as representing Temminck’s 
“ Pteromys momonga” is so much smaller than these examples 
that there is no doubt that the two should bear different names. 
But it is probable that both are included in Temminck’s descrip- 
tion, in which case one or other of them must be selected as 
typical of his species. JI would therefore propose to select the 
smaller one, of which he figured the skull, even though he himself 
* Ann. Mag. N. H. (7) xv. p. 488 (1905). 
+ Dr. Rein states that the Japanese name for this animal, Momodori, means 
* peach-bird.” 
