228 Annals of the South African, Museum. 



GEORYCHUS DAMABBNSIS, THE DAMARALAND BLESMOL. 

 Bathyergus damarcnsis, OGILBY, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 5 (1838). 

 Georychus damarensis, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 125 (1864) ; 

 THOMAS, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xvi., p. 239 (1895). 



Description. Size about the same as the common Blesmol. 

 General colour uniform reddish brown above and below with a 

 large irregularly square white mark on the occiput and another on 

 each side of the neck below the ears, meeting below on the throat, 

 which is therefore a dirty white ; feet reddish brown ; tail short, 

 covered with stiff reddish brown bristles. (Ogilby.) 



Dimensions. Head and body 8'25 ; tail - 25. 



Distribution. The type of this species, now in the British 

 Museum, was obtained many years ago by Capt. Alexander in 

 Damaraland ; it also occurs in Angola. It is not represented in the 

 collections of the South African Museum. 



GEORYCHUS DARLINGI, DARLING'S BLESMOL. 

 Georychus darling i, THOMAS, Ann. Mag. N H. (6), xvi., p. 239 

 (1895) ; DE WINTON, Proc. Zool. Soc. ; p. 805, pi. xl., fig. 1 (1896). 



Description. Size small ; fur close, soft, and velvety, general 

 colour uniform drab, the bases of the fur slaty grey, below slightly 

 paler ; a large prominent triangularly shaped spot on the crown of 

 the head ; feet and tail as in G. hottentotits. 



Skull broad and heavy, nasals short and evenly expanded, pre- 

 maxillae surpassing them posteriorly and forming a suture behind 

 them ; antorbital foramen higher than broad, with a thick outer 

 wall. 



Dimensions (from a male measured in the flesh). Head and body 

 5-0 ; tail '47 ; hind foot -86 ; skull length 1-12, breadth -88 ; upper 

 molars '22. 



Distribution. The type now in the British Museum was obtained 

 by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, near Salisbury, and other specimens 

 collected by Mr. Darling were received from Mazoe also in 

 Mashonaland, at the same time ; not represented in the South 

 African Museum. 



GEORYCHUS HOTTENTOTUS, THE MOLE EAT. 



Bathyergus hottcntotiis, LESSON, Voy. Coq. Zool., i., p. 166, pi. ii. 

 (1825). 



Bathyergus caecutiens, BRANTS, Muizen, p. 37 (1827) ; SMUTS, 



