296 RODENTIA. 



and the moustache is long and black. The external surface of the fore limbs is 

 brilliant yellowish-fawn, which hardly exists on the feet. The tail is long, and 

 very bushy and grey washed with fawn. The under surface of the parachute 

 is pale ferruginous, and a trace of this colour is mixed with the grey of the abdo- 

 men and neck. 



Inches. 



Length of body 11-90 



tail 10-65 



The face and interorbital space are relatively narrow and flattened, and the palate 

 is prolonged a considerable way backwards. 



Tliis species inhabits the mountains of Tcheli. 



Pteeomts pimbriatus, Gray. 



Sciuropterus fimlriatus, Gray^ Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. 1837 (new. ser.), p. 584; 



Proc. Zool. Soe. 1837, p. 67; List Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 135; Blyth, Journ. As. Soe. 



Beng. 1847, vol. xvi. p. 866 ; «S«V/. 1859, vol. xxviii. p. 278; Oat. Mamm. As. Soe. Beng. 



Mamm. p. 96; Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co.'s Mus. 1851, p. 163; Jerdon, Mamm. of 



Ind. 1867, p. 178. 

 Pteromys fimbriatiis, Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. vol. iii. Supjjl. 1843, p. 224; Scbinz, Syn. Mamm. 



vol. ii. 1845, p. 55. 

 Sciuropterus leaclni. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. 1836, p. 88 ; Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist. 



vol. i. New Ser. 1837, p. 584. 

 Tteromys leachii, Wagner, Sclireber, Saugeth. vol. iii. Suppl. 1843, p. 222. 



This species is very closely allied to P. alhoniger, which it resembles in its 

 colouring, but from which it is separated by its much larger ears and feet. The 

 posterior margin of the ear is nearly straight, whereas the ears of P. alhoniger are 

 rather narrowly oval, and rounded anteriorly and posteriorly. The cheek-bristles are 

 feebly developed in both species. The tail of P. fimbriatus is very bushy, and 

 nearly as long as the body, while in P. alhoniger it is more or less distichous, 

 and not so bushy and long. P. fimbriatus is the North- Western Himalayan species, 

 and P. alhoniger its eastern representative. 



The fm' is long, soft and grey varied with black, and sometimes the upper parts 

 have a brown instead of a greyish tinge. The hairs are all grey towards the base, 

 brownish towards their free extremities, and generally black-tipped. The face is 

 whitish, and the orbits are dark brown, which is the colour of the membrane. The 

 whiskers are very long and black. The chin and under parts are white. The taU is 

 broad, rather tapering and bushy, more or less fulvous, washed with black, and 

 becoming more or less black towards its tip. The feet are broad, and Dr. Gray states 

 that the outer edge of the hind feet has a broad fringe of hair, but it seems to me 

 that this character is unrehable. 



Inches. 



Length of the body and head 12 



„ of tail 11 



This species has been obtained in the North- Western Himalaya. 



