1894.] ON THE HABITS OE ANOMALURUS. 243 



white ; fringe white. Underneath, primaries brownish, secondaries 

 greyish. Exp. $ 44 millini. 

 Hah. Aroa, Venezuela. 



65. Heterocampa paranensis, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax grey, mottled with greenish scales ; the collar 

 somewhat paler. The abdomen grey above, yellowish white under- 

 neath. The primaries above light grey ; two thirds of the costa 

 from base darker grey, and also the base of the inner margin 

 darker ; a green shade extends from the base of the costal margin 

 to the middle of the inner margin, and continues to the inner 

 angle ; the outer margin greenish, the extremities of the veius 

 black ; the apical third of the costa broadly amber-green, and an 

 indistinct greenish shade from the costa, passing beyond the cell 

 and extending to the outer margin. Secondaries above white ; the 

 costal margin brown, with transverse white shades; the inner 

 margin brown, and the extreme outer margin narrowly brown. 

 Underneath, the wings are white ; the costal margin of the pri- 

 maries yellowish, and the extreme outer margin and tips of the 

 veins on the same wings brown. Exp. 35 millim. 



Hob. Castro, Parana. 



66. Bl/ERA BOLIYARI, Sp. nOV. 



S . Body greyish brown ; patagia white. Primaries above 

 white ; a brown patch on the costa at a fourth from the base ; a 

 similar spot on the costa at three fourths from the base, followed 

 by two small brown spots ; the inner margin mottled with brown, 

 forming in the female a triangular space connected by a brown line 

 with the inner costal spot ; the fringe white, spotted with brown. 

 Secondaries greyish brown ; fringe whitish. Underneath, pri- 

 maries brown, the fringe and apical half of the costa spotted with 

 brown ; secondaries whitish, the costal and outer margins broadly 

 shaded with greyish brown. Exp. 52 millim. 



Hub. Aroa, Venezuela. 



4. On the Habits of the Flying- Squirrels of the 

 Genus Anomalurus. By "W. H. Adams. 1 



[Received January 26, 1894.] 



Along the whole length of the Colony of the Gold Coast, and 

 parallel with and some 15 miles from the sea-shore, runs a range 

 of high hills with deep gorges and ravines covered with almost 

 impenetrable bush. These hills vary from 500 or 600 feet to a 

 much greater height, and it is in this bush that I obtained the 

 specimens of the peculiar Plying- Squirrels of the genus Anoma- 

 lurus which I have presented to the British Museum 2 . 



1 Communicated by Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S. 



2 [With one single exception, the "small brown skin" mentioned on p. 245 

 (which is A.fraseri, Waterh.), all the skins obtained by Mr. Adams belong to 



