250 * RODENTIA. 



Gray referred S. griseiventer, Is. Geoff., from Java to the S. assamensiSf 

 M'Clelland, wMcli, in 1843, he regarded as distinct from S. lokroides, but S. 

 griseiventer is unquestionably S. nigrovittatus, Horsfield. 



This species ranges from Nepal to Western Yunnan, and southward through 

 Assam and the Garo Hills, Tippera, and Dacca, occurring in Sylhet, Cachar and 

 Munipore, and the northern portion of Arracan : and from the Island of Preparis, 

 the Indian Museum is indebted to Mr. V. Ball for a specimen. 



SCIURUS LOKRIAH, HodgSOU. 



Sciurtis loJcriah, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. v. 1836, p. 232; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855, p. 126; 



Ogilby, Horsfield, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 151; Royles, 111. Ind. Bot. Mem. Mamm. 1840, 



p. 13; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. iii. 1843, p. 202; Walker, Cal. Journ. Nat. 



Hist. vol. iii. 1843, p. 266; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. 1847, pp. 873, ^14<;ibid. vol. 



xviii. 1849, p. 603; ibid. vol. xx. 1851, p. 166; ibid. vol. xxiv. 1855, p. 475; ibid. vol. xliv. 



1875, ex. No. p. 37; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 1863, p. 104; Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. 



Co.^s Mus. 1851, p. 153; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 402. 

 Sciurus locria, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. x. 1841, p. 915; Cal. Journ Nat. Hist. vol. 



iv. 1844, p. 293; Gray, Cat. Nepal Mamm. B. M. 1846, p. 143. 

 Sciurus subfaviventris, M'^Clelland, Grray, Hand-List Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 144; Blyth, Journ. As. 



Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. Ib47, p. 873; ibid. vol. xx. 1851, p. 166 ; ibid. vol. xxiv. 1855, p. 475 ; 



Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co.'s Mus. 1851, p. 152. 

 Macroxus lokriah, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xxi. 1867, p. 284. 



Hodgson described S. lokriah as, " above saturate brown, tipped with intense 

 orange," and in his manuscript drawings he figures under the name of S. lokriah an 

 animal of this description with deep orange under parts and no orange on the thighs, 

 although in his description he says, " below and the thighs deep orange;" but on 

 another plate he again figures two squirrels, one with the under parts deep orange and 

 the outside of the thighs of the same colour, and thus agreeing with his description 

 of >S'. lokriah, while the squirrel alongside of it has the under surface sulHed white 

 and no orange or white on the outside of the thighs ; to the former of these he affixes 

 the term S. lokriah and to the other S. lokroides. Dr. Gray, in his List of Mam- 

 malia in the British Museum, regarded S. lokriah as the red-thighed squirrel, and 

 >S'. lokroides as the grey-thighed squirrel, but, in the Catalogue of Hodgson's 

 Collection,^ we are informed that " the specimens were misnamed in the former 

 sending, which has caused a mistake in the List of Mammalia," so that what was 

 >S'. lokriah of Dr. Gray's List became in the Nepal Catalogue S. lokroides. 



Dr. Gray, in his Synopsis of Asiatic squirrels, separated S. lokroides into two 

 species, placing one section in the genus Sciurus and the other in the genus 

 Macroxus. The first he regarded as S. lokroides, and included in it those Hima- 

 layan and Assam squirrels with pale under parts, more or less sullied with rufous- 

 yellow, and without red thighs ; and to the other group, he referred the Himalayan 

 squirrel, M. similis, with reddish on the outside of the thighs. As I have already 



' L. c, p. 23. 



