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be thus almost wholly black externally. Specimen from Munneepore, pre- 

 sented by Capt. C. S. Guthrie.* 



8. Sc. erythrceus, Pallas. From Lower Assam and Cherra Poonjee. Re- 

 sembles the last, but is more fulvescent, and the sides of the neck and out- 

 side of the limbs tend to be a little more ashy than the rest, but not con- 

 trasting strongly (as in the Malayan race) : terminal three-fourths of the 

 tail of the same deep rufous as the under-parts, with a pale and sometimes 

 whitish extreme tip. Ears also red. Two specimens from Cherra Poonjee, 

 presented by F. Skipwith, Esq. ; and two small young, from Assam, present- 

 ed in spirit by Major Jenkins, and since stuffed ; these latter have much black 

 towards the base of the tail, especially underneath. 



.9. Sc. Keraudrenii, Lesson, Cent. Zool. pi. I. ; Sc. ferrugineus, Cuv. 

 (M. S. ?), apud Schinz. From Arracan and Pegu. Entirely of a deep rufo- 

 ferruginous colour, rather darker above than below, the fur of the upper-parts 

 somewhat glistening : toes of all the feet blackish, as in the three preceding ; 

 and the extreme tip of the tail yellowish-white. Two specimens from Arra- 

 can, presented by Capt. Phayre.f 



10. Sc. vittatus, Raffles : Sc. bivittatus, Desmarest.J This retains the 

 rufous belly of the preceding species, but the colour is weaker ; there is also 

 a rufous tip to the tail : the size is smaller, and a new feature of colouring 

 presents itself in the two contiguous lateral stripes, the upper white and the 

 lower black, which separate the grizzled colouring of the back from the 

 rufous of the belly. It abounds in the Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, &c. ; 

 and numerous specimens have been presented to the Society, of which three 

 are retained for the Museum. 



11. Sc. nigrovittatus, Horsfield : Sc. griseoventer, Is. Geoffroy. This 

 differs chiefly from the last in having the under-parts albescent greyish in- 

 stead of rufous, and there is no rufous at the tip of the tail, but a little at 

 its base underneath ; terminal half of the tail obscurely ringed : the upper 

 lateral stripe is tinged with fulvous ; and there is a rufous tinge on the 

 cheeks. Specimen from Malacca, presented by C. Huffnagle, Esq. Hab. also 

 Java. 



12. Sc. atrodorsalis ( ?), Gray, Ann. Mag. N. II. 1842, p. 263 : PI. XXXVII, 

 fig. 2. Size of Sc. vittatus, with an exceedingly fine bushy tail. Upper-parts 

 golden-fulvous grizzled with black ; the former predominating, especially 

 upon the head : a broad longitudinal deep black patch on the back and croup, 

 commencing behind the shoulders, and becoming evanescent posteriorly : 

 breast and under-parts light rufescent, deepening towards the tail, the hairs 

 of which are black with long pale ferruginous (or rufous-isabelline) tips : 



* Very close to this must be Sc. pygerythrus, Is. Geoff, (in the Zoology of Belanger's 

 Voyage), " from the forests of Syriam in Pegu." Colour brown picked with fulvous 

 above, below bright rufous, extending up the base of the median line of tail, which latter 

 is coloured like the back and indistinctly annulated. — Specimen a, assigned to Sc. ery- 

 thrceus in Mr. Gray's catalogue of the mammalia in the British Museum, seems referribie 

 to this. 



t Specimen b, from Bhotan, assigned by Mr. Gray to Sc. erythrceus (Brit. Mus. 

 Catal.J, is described to have the " tail-end black, top of the head bright rufous ; throat 

 grey, grizzled; belly duller red." His specimen c has the " tail-e/tcZ, bright red:" 

 India only being given as the locality. The bright rufous top of the head shows a gra- 

 dation towards Sc. Keraudrenii. 



X Prof. Schinz refers this to the subsequently described Sc.flavimanus, Is. Geoff, (in 

 the Zoology of M. Belanger's Voyage) : the latter is stated by M. Is. Geoffroy to be 

 very closely allied to Sc vittatus, but to be distinguished by having the upper surface 

 of the feet, front and outside of the fore-arm, and above the muzzle, fulvous: tail 

 not tipped with rufous, but annulated to its extremity ; and there is no white line 

 along the flanks. Hab. Ceylon or Cochin China,— in all probability the latter, rather 

 than the former, locality. 



