232 Synopsis of sundry Species of [April, 



caecum is 20 inches long, very capacious, and sacculated. This species 

 breeds in the rains, and seems to produce but one young at a time. 

 In September, the offspring are tolerably independent of their mother, 

 but their flying membrane is much less developed than in maturity. 



Genus, Sciurus, Auctorum. 

 . Species, Lokriah, mihi. 



Habitat, as before. 



Above, saturate brown, tipped with intense orange ; below, and the 

 thighs, deep orange. Tail, concolorous with the body above, distich- 

 ous, flattened, and broad, with a double margin of black and hoary. 

 Length from snout to rump, eight inches. Of the tail, 6\ inches, with- 

 out the terminal hair, equal to animal with it ; weight 8 oz. 



Species, Lokroides, mihi. 



Very similar to the last, but has the inferior parts rufous hoary ; 

 the thighs, concolorous with the body above, and the tail narrower 

 and void of marginal bands. 



Observations. The sexes alike in both the above species. Teats, 

 six in both*. Intestines, 66 inches, or but eight times the length of 

 the body, and of uniform calibre throughout. At 15 inches from the 

 anal extremity, a caecum of four to five inches long, and double the 

 calibre of the intestinal canal. 



Genus, Felis, Auctorum. 



Species, Viverriceps, mihi. Sharp-faced Cat, mihi. 



Habitat, open lowlands of lower region. 



F. V. Wild cat, with subviverrine face, small ears, and short, 

 slender, and tapered tail, reaching one inch below the os calcis. Above, 

 and the neck, deep cat gray, or fulvous gray brown. Below, the head, 

 tail, belly, and insides of the limbs, hoary. From the eyes to the 

 root of the tail, four subcontinuous black lines : two more parallel to, 

 and without, them, from the eyes to the shoulders ; two perfect 

 bands round the jaws, from the eyes : and three round the front of 

 the neck and breast. Ears, black outside, with a large gray central 

 spot, and rufous hoary on the inside. Body and limbs, wholly cover- 

 ed with roundish full black spots, having a sublinear disposition from 

 the head towards the tail ; the feet only, from the os calcis and top of 

 the carpi, being immaculate. The tail exhibits above and below the 

 ground colours of the body. On the upper surface, six or seven trans- 

 verse bands, the two or three next the body, composed of dots, arrang- 

 ed linearly, and the terminal one being large, forming a blackish tip 

 to the tail on that surface. Length, from snout to rump, 30 inches ; 



* In the Regne Animal, eight teats are assigned to the squirrels. 



