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Show 1894.] ON THE HABITS OP ANOMALURUS. 243 white; fringe white. Underneath, primaries brownish, secondaries greyish. Exp. § 44 millim. Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 65. HETEROCAMPA PARANENSIS, sp. nov. Head and thorax grey, mottled with greenish scales; the collar somewhat paler. The abdomen grey above, yellowish white underneath. The primaries above light grey ; two thirds of the costa from base darker grey, and also the base of the inner margin darker; a green shade extends from the base of the costal margin to the middle of the inner margin, and continues to the inner angle; the outer margin greenish, the extremities of the veins black; the apical third of the costa broadly amber-green, and an indistinct greenish shade from the costa, passing beyond the cell and extending to the outer margin. Secondaries above white ; the costal margin brown, with transverse white shades; the inner margin brown, and the extreme outer margin narrowly brown. Underneath, the wings are white ; the costal margin of the primaries yellowish, and the extreme outer margin and tips of the veins on the same wings brown. Exp. 35 millim. Hab. Castro, Parana. 66. BLERA BOLIYARI, sp. nov. 3. Body greyish brown; patagia wmite. Primaries above white ; a brown patch on tbe costa at a fourth from the base; a similar spot on the costa at three fourths from the base, followed by two small brown spots ; the inner margin mottled with brown, forming in the female a triangtdar space connected by a brown line with the inner costal spot; the fringe white, spotted with brown. Secondaries greyish brown; fringe whitish. Underneath, primaries brown, the fringe and apical half of the costa spotted with brown ; secondaries whitish, the costal and outer margins broadly shaded with greyish brown. Exp. 52 millim. Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 4. On the Habits of the Flying-Squirrels of the Genus Anomalurus. By W . H . A D A M S . 1 [Received January 26, 1894.] Along tbe whole length of the Colony of the Gold Coast, and parallel with and some 15 miles from the sea-shore, runs a range of high hills with deep gorges and ravines covered with almost impenetrable bush. These hills vary from 500 or 600 feet to a much greater height, and it is in this bush that I obtained the specimens of the peculiar Flying-Squirrels of the genus Anomalurus which I have presented to the British Museum2. 1 Communicated by OLDFIELD THOMAS, F.Z.S. 2 [With one single exception, the "small brown skin" mentioned on p. 245 (which is A.fraseri, Waterh.), all the skins obtained by Mr. Adams belong to |
