Hylopetes phayrei (Blyth, 1859) . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 28:278.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Rangoon, Merqui" [Burma] .

DISTRIBUTION: Burma; Thailand; Laos; S Vietnam; Fukien and Hainan (China).

SYNONYMS: anchises Allen and Coolidge, 1940; electilis (G. Allen, 1925); laotum (Thomas, 1914); probus (Thomas, 1914).

COMMENTS: Includes electilis, which was in Petinomys; see Corbet and Hill (1992).