236 EODENTIA. 



well-defined, black band. The ears are large and rounded, and their external surface 

 is well clad, the hairs projecting nearly half an inch beyond their apical margins. 

 The whiskers are jet black. 



Inches. 



Length of body along curve of back . . . . • • . 8-75 



„ of tail 6-75 



„ „ with hair .......-■ 8'50 



This species occurs in Malacca. 



M. A. M.-Edwards has included this squirrel among the dorsaUy lineated 

 species under the name S. Uliiieatus, Temminck, but there is no such squirrel 

 described in Les JEsquisses de Zoologie. Sciurus bimaculatus, Temminck, is not 

 dorsally lineated, and derives its name from its tail ending in white and black. 



SCITJEUS EHYTHR^TTS, PallaS. 



Scninis erythrmus, Pallas, Nov. sp. Quad, e Glir. ord. 1778, p. 377; Zimm. Geograph. Gesch. 



vol. ii. 1780, p. 342; Boddaert, Elench. Animal, vol. i. 1785, p. 118; Gmelin, Linn. Syst. 



vol. i. 1788, p. 148; Pennant, Quad. vol. ii. 1792, p. 143; Sehreber, Saugeth. vol. iv. 



1792, p. 782; Shaw, Genl. Zool. vol. ii. pt. i. 1801, p. 132; Horsfd. Zool. Eesch. Java, 



124; Desmoulins, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. vol. vi. 1824, p. 74; Lesson, Man. de Zool. 



1827, p. 237; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 361; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bang. vol. xi. 



1842, p. 970; ihid. vol. xvi. 1847, p. 872; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 1863, p. 102; 



Wagner, Sehreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. iii. 1843, p. 218 ; Gray, Hand-List Mamm. B. M. 1843, 



p. 142. 

 Sciums erythrogader, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xi. 1842, p. 970; ibid. vol. ssiv. p. 473 



(note) ; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 1863, p. 102. 

 Sciurus erythrmis, Gray, Hand-List Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 142; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



1847, vol. xvi. p. 872. 

 f' Scinrus hjpopyrrlms, Wagler, Abhand. Miinchen. Akad. vol. ii. ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. vol. ii. 



1845, p. 20. 

 Sciurus rufiventer, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. 1847, p. 871. 

 Sciurus liippurm, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. vol. xxiv. 1855, p. 473 (note) ; Walker, Cal. Journ. Nat. 



Hist. vol. ii. 1843, p. 266. 

 Macroxus erythrogaster, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. 1867, p. 283 (in part). 

 Macroxiis punctatissiimis, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. 1867, p. 283. 



Pallas, in his description of new species of rodents in 1778, described a squirrel 

 under the name of ^S*. erythrcBus. This animal has long been a puzzle to zoologists 

 from the characters he assigned to it. His type specimen, he states distinctly, came 

 from India. The description given by him so agrees with the squirrels which have 

 been indicated as >S'. erythrogaster and S. castaneoventris that his term erythroeus 

 has not unfrequently been applied to them, although there has been prevailing a 

 general misapprehension regarding its characters ; the chief point of difficulty being 

 tlie existence in Pallas' specimen of a black line along the upper surface of, the 

 tail. Blyth, with his usual quick perception of specific characters, referred a speci- 

 men from the hills of Lower Assam to S. erythrceus, PaUas, and it appears to 

 me that he was correct in so doing. In his enumeration of the characters of 



