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(.rrapliiurus elcyans, OGILBY, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 5 (1838) 

 [Damaraland] . 



Graphiurus ocular is, DE WINTON, Ann. Mag. N. H. (7), ii., p. 3 

 (1898). 



Description. General colour ashy grey, fur soft and thick, dark 

 slaty at the base, dull white mixed with black at the apex ; patch on 

 the snout and chin, white with a reddish tinge ; cheeks, a patch in 

 front of the shoulder, and a spot on the head at the base of the 

 inner angle of the ear conch, white, a black patch runs from the root 

 of the whiskers through the eye and is continued along the front of 

 the ear ; ears large, rounded, nearly naked but thinly covered round 

 the margin with fine black hairs ; under surface from the chest 

 downwards and the sides between the limbs dull white, the slaty 

 bases of the fur showing clearly ; extremities very slender, tail rather 

 short, bushy throughout and distichous, white mixed with black 

 above, black below, the individual hairs above being black for their 

 basal and white for their terminal halves. 



Dimensions (from a stuffed specimen). Head and body 6'30 ; 

 tail 3 '85 ; with terminal hairs 4-90 ; from ear-opening to tip of 

 snout 1-14; hind foot -83; skull length 1-34, breadth -78; upper 

 cheek teeth -14. 



Distribution. This large dormouse seems to be confined to South 

 Africa, where it is widely distributed in suitable localities ; the South 

 African Museum possesses examples from Clanwilliam, Ceres, and 

 Worcester in the west, and from Colesberg, Albany, and Uniondale 

 in the east of the Colony ; it is further recorded from Darnaraland 

 and the Marico district of the Transvaal. 



The type described by Smith from Plettensbergs Bay (Knysna 

 district of the Colony) is now in the British Museum. 



GRAPHIURUS MURINUS, THE CAPE DORMOUSE. 



Myoxus murinus, DESMAREST, Mamm. Suppl., p. 542 (1820) ; 

 SMUTS, Enum. Mamm. Cap., p. 34 (1832) ; A. SMITH, S. Afr. Quart. 

 Journ., ii., p. 146 (1834) ; PETERS, Eeise Mozamb. Saugeth., p. 136, 

 pi. xxxv., fig. 1 (1852) ; LAYARD, Cat. Mamm. S. Afr. Mus., p. 48 

 (1862). 



Myoxus conpci, F. CUVIER, Hist. Nat. Mamm., livr. xxxvii. (1822) 

 [Senegal] . 



Myoxus lalandianus, SCHINZ, Thierreich, iv., p. 393 (1825). 



Myoxus erythrobroncJuis, A. SMITH, Zool. Journ., iv., p. 438 (1829). 



Myoxus cinerascens, EUPPELL, Mus. Senck., iii., p. 136 (1842) 

 [Natal] . 



