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Show 1897.] FROM NYASALAND. 933 Unfortunately the names of these genera cannot stand as in Dr. Major's scheme, for (being busy with more important matters) he has ignored nomenclatural rules and has attached provisional names of his own to nearly all the subgenera. But these names being antedated for the most part by tbe terms of Gray or Trouessart must necessarily give way to the latter. Using mainly Gray's revision of 1867 \ and Trouessart's of 18802, and, without making prolonged nomenclatural investigations, the following appear to be the names which the different groups of Squirrels should bear :- 1. Rheithrosciurus, Gray, 1867. Type, R. macrotls. 2. Protoxerus, Maj. 1893. Type, P. stungeri6. 3. Xerus, Hempr. & Ehr. 1833. Type, X. rutilus. Geosciurus, A. Smith, 1834. Type, X. capensis. Atlantoxerus, Maj. 1893 4. Type, X. getulus. 4. Funlsclurus, Trouess. 1880. Type, F. Isabella. Puraxerus, Maj. 1893. Type, F. cepapl. 5. Funambulus, Less. 1832. Type, F. palmarum5. Rhlnosciurus, Gray, 1843. Type, F. latlcuudatus. Larla and Pulmlsta, Gray, 1867. Types, F. insignis and palmarum. Eoxerus, Maj. 1893. Type, F. lutlcuudutus. 6. Rutufu, Gray, 1867. Type, R. Indica. Rukala, Gray, 1867. Type, R. macrura. Eosclurus, Trouess. 1880. Type, R. bicolor. 7. Sciurus, Linn. 1758. Type, S. vulgaris. Macroxus, G. Cuv. 1825. Type, S. cestuans. Callosclurus, Buglnia, and Erythrosclurus, Gray, 1867. Types, S. prevostll, notatus, and ferruglneus. Heterosclurus, Neosclurus, Parasclurus, Echinosclurus, Hellosclurus, and Tamlasciurus, Trouess. 1880. Types, S. erythrceus, carolinensls, niger, hypropyrrhus, anuulutus, and hudsonlus. The limits of the genera would be those indicated in Dr. Major's paper. 27. FUNISCIURUS CEPAPI, A. Sm. ff. o* • Monkey Bay, Lake Nyasa, July 1896. This is the furthest locality northwards that the true F. cepupl has beeu recorded from, the East-African forms of the same group having been shown to be specifically distinct (see De Winton, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xix. p. 573, 1897). 1 Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) xx. p. 270 (1867). 2 Le Nat., Oct. 1880. 3 As Dr. Major has not selected types for his group names, I have, as the "next reviser," ventured to do so for him, choosing in eacu case the species he has placed first. 4 M;iy be considered as a subgenus of true Xerus. 5 ' Illustrations de Zoologie,' text to pl. xliii. (1832). Lesson's Funambulus indicus is the Palm Squirrel, not the big Eatufa indica. |