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colour, readily distinguishes it from the new species described by Dr. 

 Smith : no tail : length 4 J inches. 



Bathyergus Damarensis. A species intermediate in size between 

 Capensis and Hottentotus : colour uniform reddish brown both above 

 and below, with a large irregularly square white mark on the occiput, 

 much larger than in Hottentotus, and another on each side of the neck 

 just under the ears ; these two meet on the throat, which is thus 

 covered with dirty dunnish white ; tail, a large flat stump covered 

 with coarse reddish brown bristles, which stand out from it in all 

 directions like radii ; paws reddish brown : length 8J inches \ tail 

 \ inch*. 



Graphiurus elegans. Smaller than Graph. Capensis of CuV., and 

 of a purer and deeper ash colour above ; the chin, throat, and cheeks 

 are covered by a large patch of pure white, the rest of the under sur- 

 face is mixed grey and ash, and all the tarsi and paws pure white : 

 there is a mark of the same colour above and in front of each ear, 

 and an oblique white stripe runs from the throat backwards over the 

 shoulder, just in front of the arms ; an intense t>lack stripe passes 

 from the commissure of the mouth, through the eye to the ear ; the 

 tail is covered with short coarse hair, pure white above, pure black be- 

 low, and pencilled or shaded on each side; face greyish ash; whiskers 

 abundant, and of a grey colour : length 5 inches ; tail 2| inches. 



Mr. Ogilby observed, that the above species, and the one described 

 by F. Cuvier, under the name of Graph. Capensis, appeared to him 

 to differ in no respect from the genus Myoxus, and that in character- 

 ising the present animal, he merely made use of the name Graphiurus 

 to indicate its relation to that originally described by Cuvier. 



Mr. Ogilby likewise called the attention of the Society to certain 

 peculiarities in the structure of the hand, in a living specimen of a 

 new species of Galago, which he proposes to call Otolicnus Garnettii, 

 after the gentleman to whom he was indebted for the opportunity of 

 describing it, and who has already conferred many advantages upon 

 science by the introduction of numerous rare and new animals. The 

 peculiarity of structure to which Mr. Ogilby alluded, consisted in 

 the partially opposable character of the index finger of the fore hands, 

 the fingers on these members being divided into two groups, com- 

 posed of the thumb and index on one side, and the remaining three 

 fingers on the other, as in the Koalas and Pseudocheirs. He re- 



* This specimen, and the Macroscelides melanotis, were purchased for 

 the British Museum, and the remaining three species for the Museum of 

 the Zoological Society at the sale of Capt. Alexander's Collection, March 8, 

 1838. 



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