OLDFIELD THOMAS AND E. C. WEOUGHTON— MABIMALIA. 499 



Size about as in F. fyrrhoims. Fur soft and rich; hairs of back about 13-15 mm. 

 in length. General colour above bright yellovvish-olivaceous-green, the hairs blackish 

 with rich yellow subterminal bands. Along the sides of the back a suggestion of 

 yellow lateral lines, in the position of those of the F. pyrrJiopus group, can be made out, 

 but these are very faint and scarcely to be distinguished from the yellow of the flanks. 

 Under surface and inner sides of limbs bluish-grey, the hairs dark slaty with whitish 

 tips. Head like back ; eyes rimmed above and below with dull whitish or orange- 

 whitish ; ears short, rounded, their inner surface greenish-yellow like the flanks, their 

 outer surface and a small post-auricular patch dull yellowish-white. Upper surface of 

 hands and feet grizzled yellowish. Tail coloured like the body, the hairs black at base 

 and on a broad subterminal ring, the middle ring and the ends greenish-yellow; a 

 pencil of long hairs at the tip of the tail wholly black. 



Skull of about the size and general shape of that of F. enjthrogenys and other 

 members of the F. pyrrhopus group. Nasals square, parallel-sided. Postorbital 

 processes further forward on the skull than in F. erythrogenys. Teeth apparently 

 of the same general type as in F. erythrogenys, but m^ considerably larger. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 198 mm. ; tail 192 ; hind foot 47-5 ; ear 20. 



Skull: greatest length 49 ; basilar length 38 ; greatest breadth 28; nasals 13x7-5 ; 

 interorbital breadth 12-2 ; palatilar length 20-2 ; length of upper tooth-series exclusive 

 oip^ 8-8. 



Another specimen (a male) has head and body 204 mm. ; tail 205. 



Tyjjg. Female. B.M. no. 6.7.1.53. Original number 262. Collected 7th February, 

 1906, by Mr. Douglas Carruthers. 



The affinities of this handsome and distinct species are by no means clear. Its size 

 and the indistinct lateral dorsal lines suggest a relationship to the non-rufous members 

 of the F. jpyrrliopus group, although it has not their characteristically marked tail, and 

 the bluish-grey belly is unlike anything found among them. 



[This was a rare Squirrel, and the few specimens obtained were all killed in a 

 particular part of the forest close to a large native clearing. — R. B. W.] 



Family G L i K, i D iE. 

 48. GeaPHICEUS SOLEATUS, sp. n, 



<S . 284. ? . 6. Mubuku Valley, E. Euwenzori. 5000-6000 ft. 



A Graphiurus of the murinus-microtis group, with small bullse and dark-coloured 

 white-toed feet. 



Size as in G. microtis. Fur (6 mm. long on back) thick and close. General colour 

 above probably a brownish-grey normally, but these specimens are in their faded brown 



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