XERUS. FUNISCIURUS. IdSl 



Subgenus A. Xerus. 



199. Xerus rutilus (Cretzschmar) . 



Sciurus TMtilus Cretzschm., Riipp. iVtl. Reis. Nordl. Afr., i, 1826, 



p. 59- _ 



Spermosciiirus simplex Less., Hist. Nat. Mamm., v, 1836, p. 402. 

 Xerus dabagala Heugl., Peterm. Mittheil., i86t, p. 17. 

 Xerus flavtis A. Milne-Edw., Rev. Mag. Zool., 1867, p. 229. 

 Xerus fuscus Huet, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Paris, 2me Ser., 1880, pi. 



VI, fig. I. 



Xerus rutilus Jent., Notes Leyd. Mus., iv, 1882, p. 41. Elliot, 

 Pub. Field Columb. Mus., i, 1897, P- i4i- Zool. Ser. 

 Red Spiny Squirrel. 



1. Adult c? Coll. Laferug, Somaliland, E. Africa. D. G. Elliot. 



2. Adult 9 Coll. Laferug, Somaliland, E. Africa. D. G. Elliot. 

 3-4. Adult c^ Coll. Hullieh, Somaliland, E. Africa. D. G. Elliot. 



5. Adult ? Coll. Hullieh, Somaliland, E. Africa. D. G. Elliot. 



Genus 99. Fimisciurus. 



Funisciurus Trouess., Le Natural., 11, No. 37, 1880, p. 293. Type 

 Sciurus leniniscatus Leconte. 



2C0. Funisciurus mystax de Winton. 



Funisciurus mystax de Winton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Ser., 

 II, 1898, p. 9, fig. 3. 

 Mysterious Squirrel. 



I. Adult 9 P. Benito River, W. Africa. E. Gerrard & Sons. 

 G. L. Bates. 



201. Funisciurus pyrrhopus (F. Cuvier). 



Sciurus pyrropus ! F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 1833, pi. 240. 

 Sciurus eryth'ogeiiysW aXerh., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1842, p. 129. Fras., 



Zool. Typica, 1849, P- 25- 

 *Sciurti.s leucogenys Waterh., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ist Ser., x, 



1842, p. 202. 

 Sciurus rubripes Du Chaillu, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., i860, 



p. 366. 

 Macroxus pyrrhopus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd Ser., xx, 



1867, p. 330. (Part.) 



*Said to be a good species. See Thos., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Ser., xi, 

 1903, p. 81. 



