Two specimens (36192/48550, a young male with unworn teeth, and 36193/48551, an adult male with much worn teeth, both in the United States Biological Surveys Collection in the National Museum) were recorded by Bailey (N. Amer. Fauna, 25:75, 1905) as _Sciurus ludovicianus_ from Gainesville, Texas. Bailey (_loc. cit._) further stated that if the name _Sciurus rufiventer_ Geoffroy proved usable it would apply to the specimens from Gainesville. Since the name _rufiventer_ was revived there would be no question concerning the identity of these specimens had not Lowery and Davis (Occas. Papers, Mus. Zool., Louisiana State Univ., 9:172, 1942) assigned three specimens (not seen by us) to _Sciurus niger limitis_ Baird from a point only thirteen miles northwesterly. Lowery and Davis (_loc. cit._) say that their specimens are intergrades (presumably with _rufiventer_) and Bailey (_loc. cit._) noted that his two specimens from Gainesville "are in size and color nearer to _ludovicianus_ [= _rufiventer_] than to typical _limitis_." Examination of the two specimens from Gainesville convinces us that Bailey was correct and the specimens therefore are referable to _Sciurus niger rufiventer_. More in detail, the color agrees with that of _rufiventer_ and differs from that of _limitis_ and from that of darker specimens of _Sciurus niger ludovicianus_ (in the restricted sense used by Lowery and Davis, _op. cit._: 104). Also the size is larger than in _limitis_ and as in _rufiventer_ or _ludovicianus_. Selected measurements of Nos. 36192/48550 and 36193/48551 are, respectively, as follows: Total length, 505, 500; length of tail, 237, 228; length of hind foot, 72, 70; basilar length of Hensel, 48.5, 48.6; zygomatic breadth, 35.1, 36.0; length of nasals, 21.4, 22.3; alveolar length of maxillary tooth-row, 11.8, 11.1; width across posterior tongues of premaxillae, 17.5, 18.4. ~Sciurus variegatoides rigidus~ Peters