344 ME. OLDFJELD THOMAS ON [IS'OV. 28, 



21. Meles anakuma Temm. 



c?. 312, 313. $. 295. Jinrio, Tokushima Ken, Shikoku. 

 500'. 



c? . 403, 404. Takamori, Kumamoto, Kiushiu. 



" Not uncommon. The peasants secure them by smoking them 

 out of their holes."— J/. F.A. 



22. Petaurista leucogenys Temm. 



d . 231, 234, 240. $ . 253. Washikaguchi, Nara Ken, Hondo. 

 6^.477. $.479,480,481. Mitai, Miyasaki, Kiushiu. 



The specimens from Kiushiu are nearly topotypical, but are 

 less similar to the ISTagasaki skin which I provisionally took as 

 typical when recently writing on the subject, than to the form 

 from Shikoku which I described as P. I. toscB*. 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." — M. P. A. 



" At Mitai, Kiushiu, they lived in numbers in a grove of 

 Cryptomerias svirrounding 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." — M. P. A. 



23. SCIUROPTERUS MOMONGA AMTGDALI f, Subsp. n. 



cJ . 257, 259. 2 • 258, 260, 261, 262. Washikaguchi, Nara 

 Ken, Southern Centi>al 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 diflerent names. 

 But it is probable that both are inckided in Temminck's descrip- 

 tion, in which case one or other of them must be selected as 

 typical of his sj)ecies. I 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). 



f Dr. Rein states that the Japanese name for this animal, Momodori, means 

 " peach-bird." 



