260 EODENTIA. 



I have examined all the types which have yielded the various specific appella- 

 tions which head this notice, and do not find that they differ in any way from each 

 other. 



SciURUS SUBLINE ATUS, Watcrhouse. 



Scitmis sublineatus, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 19; Gray, Hand-List B. M. 1843, 

 p. 142; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. vol. ii. 1845, p. 42; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. 1847, 

 p. 875; Cat. Mamm. Mus. As. Soc. Beng. 1863, p. 107; Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co.'s 

 Mus. 1851, p. 151; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind. 1867, p. 173. 



Sciurus (Funambulus) delessertii, Gervais, Bull, de la Soc. Philom. 1841, dans Tlnstit. Journ. Gen. 

 des Soc. Sc. 1st Sect. No. 386, May 1841; Guerin, Mag. de Zool. 1842, Mammif. pis. xxxi. 

 and xxxii. figs. 1-4 (skull) ; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. iii. 1845, p. 205; Schinz, 

 Syn. Mamm. vol. ii. 1845, p. 43. 



Sciurus trilineaius, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng, vol. xx. 1851, p. 165. 



Macroxus sublmeatiis, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, vol. xx. p. 280. 



This little squirrel is smaller than the palm squirrel. It has very finely 

 grizzled, rather dark olive-brown fur, the lineation of the upper parts being obscure, 

 and reaching only from the shoulder to the commencement of the sacral region. 

 The tail is concolorous with the upper parts, or darker, and it is obscurely annulated. 

 The dorsal lines are seven in number, three being pale and four dark. The under 

 parts are variable, but they are always dusky and never bright coloured, and vary 

 from grey to dusky brown washed with rufous. 



It inhabits the mountains of Southern India and of Ceylon. The body is 

 5 inches long, and the tail is 4*50. 



The type is in the British Museum, also a specimen of S. delesserti presented 

 by Delessert himself ; and the two are in no way distinguishable the one from the 

 other. 



I have examined both the types which have yielded the above synonymy. 



Sciurus layardi, Blyth. 



Sciurus layardi, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xviii. 1849, p. 602; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 



1863, p. 107; Kelaart, Fauna Zeylanica, 1852, p. 53; Layard, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 



vol. ix. 1852, p. 335; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind. 1867, p. 172. 

 Macroxus (PalmistaJ layardi, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, vol. xx. p. 280, 



This species is about the same size as the palm squirrel, but in its general 

 colour it approaches S. sublineatus; but the yellow dorsal lines, especially the 

 mesial line, are much brighter than in that species, while the lateral pale streaks 

 are not very well defined, but still much more so than in 8. sublineatus. In some 

 specimens, the mesial line is bright orange, extending from the nape even on to the 

 base of the tail, and, in such instances, the two intervening dark bands are jet 

 black, whereas, in those squirrels in which these light-coloured bands are pale, the 

 intervening dark bands differ only from the surrounding fur in being darker, but 

 are distinctly grizzled like it. The general colour is dark olive-brown on the upper 



