222 Annals of the Sou-tli African Museum. 



bling that of A. pumilio. Mammae 8 2 pairs pectoral, 2 pairs 

 inguinal. Incisors broad and stout but smooth, not furrowed. 



Dimensions (from a specimen preserved in spirit). Head and 

 body 4-70 ; tail 5'60 ; from ear-opening to tip of nose T40 ; hind 

 foot 1-10. Of a specimen measured in the flesh by Mr. Darling : 

 Head and body 5-12 ; tail 5-25 ; hind foot 1-12 ; skull length 1-20, 

 breadth -67 ; upper molars '25. 



Distribution. Sir A. Smith, the describer of the species, states 

 that it is common to the north of the Orange Eiver, but rare to the 

 south ; it has also been obtained within our limits by Mr. Darling at 

 Mazoe, in Mashonaland, and beyond in Angola, Mozambique, and 

 Nyassaland. 



GEN. GOLUNDA. 



Golunda, GRAY, Charlesw. Mag., N. H., i., p. 586 (1837). Type 

 G. ellioti. 



Pclomys, PETERS, Eeise Mozamb. Saugeth. , p. 157 (1852). Type 

 G. fallax. 



Eat-like animals with short rounded heads and somewhat coarse 

 bristly fur ; the fifth finger of the forelimb is very short and rudi- 

 mentary ; the tail is long, scaly, and rat-like ; skull with compressed 

 palate ; upper incisors grooved, molars low and broad with tubercles 

 arranged as in Mus, when worn exhibiting a peculiar series of semi- 

 circular flattened lobes arranged in a triple row in the upper, in a 

 double row in the lower jaw. 



The grooving of the incisors and the shortness of the fifth finger 

 at once separate this genus from Mus, which it otherwise closely 

 resembles. 



Four species are recognised. One of these is found in India, two 

 in West Africa, and the remaining one, described below, in South 

 Africa. 



GOLUNDA FALLAX, THE SWAMP EAT. 



Pelomys fallax, PETERS, Eeise Mozamb. Saugeth., p. 157, pi. 

 xxxiii., fig. 3, pi. xxxv., fig. 9 (1852) ; BOCAGE, Jorn. Sci. Lisb. (2), v., 

 p. 47 (1890) [habits in Angola] . 



Golunda fallax, DE WINTON, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 804 (1896). 



Description. General colour above speckled dark brown and 

 yellowish, somewhat paler on the sides and grey below, fur harsh 

 and bristly, a somewhat indistinct dark dorsal stripe along the back ; 

 tip of the nose rufous-brown, ears moderate, round, fairly covered 



