SCIURUS CEPAPI.— Smith. 
Mammalia. — Plate V . (Male.) 
S. supra ochrcus, brunnco-nigro leviter inarmoratus ; corporis lateribus pedibusque ochreis ; labio 
superiore, stria supcrciliari, corporisque partibus inforioribus albis, ventro flavo-tmcto ; caudd dis- 
tich a, oclirea brunneo-nigro variegata ; auriculis brevibus, apicibus obtusis, margine extemo versus 
apicem emarginato ; oculis bruuneis. 
Longitijdo corporis cum capita 7f unc., caudce 7 unc. 
Scicrus Cepapi, App. to Rep. of Exp. page 43, June, 1836. 
Colour. — Face ochry yellow, pencilled with black; the upper part ol the 
head and neck, the back and the flanks grizzled light ochre-yellow and 
brownish black, each hair being brownish black at the base, then ochry 
yellow, then brownish black, and finally ochre-yellow ; some have their 
extreme points blackish brown ; the upper surface of the tail is also grizzled 
in the same manner as the back, only the proportion of the brownish black 
colour is greater, and hence the dark colour is there more conspicuous, and gives 
rise in some specimens to the appearance of a number of irregular dark bars ; 
the upper lip, a short stripe over each eye, the chin, the throat, the breast, 
the belly, and the inner sides of the legs white, sometimes faintly tinged with 
yellow ; the sides of the head, neck and body, and the outer and hinder sides 
of the legs ochre-yellow ; the hair of the hinder legs deep black at its base ; 
anterior surface of ears pale yellowish white ; posterior surface dull white ; 
incisor teeth reddish orange ; eyes dark brown ; whiskers black ; nails deep 
brown.* 
Form, &c.— Figure rather slender; head small; the anterior molar of 
the upper jaw very small, subcylindrical with the crown entire ; the remaining 
four concave, the crowns towards the outer sides divided each into two por- 
tions by a fine transverse groove: the anterior molar of the lower jaw semi- 
cylindrical, the crown divided into three tubercles ; the other three molars 
on each side nearly similar to those of the upper jaw ; ears short, with a 
slight emargination in the outer edge a little below their points; the latter 
* The tints vary a little in different specimens. 
