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than the two posterior ones taken together, the anterior portion 

 elongated and rather pointed, often bearing an extra heel in front 

 not found in other South African species. It is chiefly on this that 

 the genus Lcggada is founded, but the character is not sufficiently 

 distinct or constant to afford grounds for generic distinction. 



Dimensions (from a specimen in alcohol). Head and body 2'40 

 (in skin 2-90) ; tail 1'90 ; hind foot '50 ; from ear-opening to nose- 

 tip '70 ; skull length '77, breadth 40 ; upper molars -15. 



Distribution. The type of this species was obtained near Cape 

 Town by Sir A. Smith ; the South African Museum possesses 

 examples from various parts of the Cape Division, from Clan- 

 william, Natal, and Delagoa Bay, and it is recorded from Knysna 

 and Damaraland ; it is, therefore, probably widespread throughout 

 South Africa ; outside these limits it extends through Mozambique 

 and Nyassaland as far north as Wadelai and Uganda. 



The following species are not represented in the collections of the 

 South African Museum, and cannot at present be satisfactorily 

 identified : 



MUS LEHOCHLA. 



Mus lehochla, A. SMITH, App. Eeport Exped. Explor. S. Africa, 

 p. 43 (1836) ; ID., Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mam., pi. xlvii., fig. 1 (1849). 



Description. -General colour above dark brown mixed with rufous, 

 below white with a rufous tinge ; eyebrow white ; nose-tip (accord- 

 ing to Smith's plate) white ; tail a little longer than the head and 

 body, brown and sparsely haired. 



Dimensions. Head and body 4'75 ; tail 5 - ; hind foot '82. 



Distribution. The type was obtained from Lataku near Kuruman 

 in Bechuanaland, and was found in brushwood ; it is perhaps a 

 multimammate species allied to Mus coucha, but with a longer 

 tail. 



MUS NAMAQUENSIS. 



Gcrbillus namaquensis, A. SMITH, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., ii., p. 160 

 (1834). 



Mus namaquensis, DE WINTON, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 802 (1896). 



Description. General colour above fawn, pencilled with black 

 especially posteriorly, sides lighter ; below bluish white ; slaty bases 

 above and to the sides, but not to the belly hairs ; ears very long 

 and broad with short white hairs inside, extremities covered with 



