SCIURUS INSIGNIS. 
Oiid. IV™ Rongeurs, Cuvier. 1" Division. 
Oed. IV. Glikes, Linn, Syst. 
Ord. IV. Prensiculantia, Iltiger* Fam. 9, Agilia. 
SCIURUS, Linn. Briss. Enleb. Bodd. Cuv. Geoff. Blig. <$c. 
Char. Gen. — Denthim formula; Primores -t, Molares Primores superiores 
pagina antica laeves, inferiores admodum compressi acuti. Pro Laniards diastema. 
Molares abrupti obducti tri tores, supra antico accessorio. 
Rostrum acutum. Labrum fissum. Sacculi buccales nulli. Auricula? oblonga?, peni- 
cillata 1 vel rotundata? simplices. 
Cauda elongata villosa, coinpressiusculo-disticha vel cylindrica. Mamma? aperta?. 
** Cauda cylindrical vel apice tantum dnticha. 
Sciurus fuscus griseo variegatus subtus albidus, striis tribus nigris longitudinal ibus, 
hypochondriis femoribusque taenia ferruginea diffusa, lateribus coDi et abdo- 
minis angusta notatis. 
Boklcol, of the Javanese. 
Sciurus insignis, Le Lary, Pred. Cuv. Mamm. UtJiogr. 34™ livraison. Encycl. 
Method. Mammahgie, Supplement, p. 544. Par M. A. 6?. Desmarest, 1822. 
THE discovery of numerous species of the genus Sciurus, in recent periods, 
has required the establishment of a second section, in which those individuals that 
are provided with a cylindrical tail, are separated from the common Squirrels of 
Europe and North America, in which the hairs on this organ are disposed in two 
rows. Of these new species, some have been added from South America, others 
from t lie Islands of the Indian Archipelago; the latter are likewise distinguished 
by short rounded ears with a narrow helix close]) applied to the head, destitute 
of a brush-like appendage of long hairs, and by genital organs, in the male, of 
uncommon size. 
