522 On some new Africayi Squirrels, 



Skull : greatest length 46*7; condylo-incisive leno-tli 41. 



Hah. Beouriii, Ivory Coast Protectorate. Alt. 650'. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 23. 2. 3. 19. Original 

 number 2043. Collected 22 December, 1922, by Willoughby 

 P. Lowe. Three specimens. 



This representative of H, punetatus, inliabiting the sa- 

 vannah region of the Northern Ivory Coast Protectorate, is 

 perceptibly paler throughout than the saturate typical form 

 of the coast. 



Fanisciurus leucostigma niveatuSj subsp. n. 



A greyish form with snowy-white belly. 



General colour above pale olive-grey with much less 

 suffusion of buffy than in other races. Lateral lines buffy or 

 whitish. Flanks dull fulvous, less rufous than in leucostigma, 

 iind still less rufous than the brilliantly red flanks of leonis* 

 Belly snovvy-whitej conspicuously wliiter than in any of the 

 allied forms. White posiauricular patches well marked. 

 Hands and feet rather paler buffy than usual. Middle of 

 underside of tail pale ochraceous. Skull rather smaller than 

 in leucostigma and leo7iis. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in flesh : — 



IJead and body 198 ram. ; tail 160; hind foot 44 ; ear 20. 



Skull : greatest leiigth 48 ; condylo-incisive length 43*5 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 26'7. 



Ilab. Beoumi, 12 miles E. of Bandama, Ivory Coast Pro- 

 tectorate ; about 250 miles north of the coast. Alt. 650'. 



Type. Old male. B.M. no. 23. 2. 3. 21. Original 

 number 2010. Collected 5 December, 1922, by Willoughby 

 P. Lowe. Five specimens. 



This striking form of the leucostigma group is readily 

 distinguishable by its greyish back, almost without buffy 

 suffusion, and, eispecially, by its snowy-white belly. 



Tuiiisciurus carruthersi chrysippus, subsp. n. 



Like true carruthersi^ but the under surface broadly washed 

 with yellow. 



General colour above o£ the same greenish olivaceous as in 

 carruthersi ; not so dark as in tanganyihce. Under surface 

 yellow, not sharply defined from the flanks, the hairs dark 

 slaty, their tips rich yellow ; inguinal region ochraceous. 

 Sides of face more or less ochraceous, and hairs o£ ear of the 

 same colour. Hands and feet grizzled ochraceous, about as 

 in tanganyikce. Tips of tail-hairs yellow. 



