﻿6 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 4. N:0 3. 



as a band över the eye to tlie ear and nape but becomes 

 gradually paler behind. The outer side of the ears is from 

 rufous to sandy brown, the hairs within are white. The 

 long hairs of the head crest are black, some of the an- 

 terior ones have whitish subterminal rings, the middle 

 ones have more or less rufous or brownish yellow subter- 

 minal rings. A very characteristic feature is that the 

 rufous anterior portion of the face and the proboscis are 

 richly spotted with snowy white. The white spöts are not 

 regular but very well defined and appear to have a tendency 

 to be arranged into longitudinal series or even in some in- 

 stances to become confluent into bands. As such spöts are 

 not described on any Madoqua or Rhynchotragus, as far as 

 I know, I have thought suitable to derive the name from 

 this and call the new species, Rhynchotragus nasoguttatus. 



The region below the eye is greyish white with broad 

 subterminal white rings and short brownish tips to the hairs. 

 The same colour cxtends all över the före neck and lower 

 side of neck, on the sides gradually passing into the slightly 

 darker grey of the upper neck. A large white patch on the 

 throat is by a påle sandy tract separated from a white spöt 

 on the chin. Breast and belly are white. The grey of the 

 shoulders and hams extends down före- and hind-legs but 

 passes gradually into a påle rufous or sandy brown which 

 reaches to the hoofs. As Avell före- as hind-feet are provided 

 with small white spöts which, however, are smaller and less 

 defined than those of the proboscis. 



The horns are black, rather strongly ringed but the rings 

 do not extend över more than about ^/^ of the proximal 

 portion of the horn. The rings are not complete but less 

 developed almost obsolete on the median side of the horns. 

 The proximal portion of the horns is obliquely compressed 

 from the sides so that the shorter (transverse) diameter is 

 about 8V2 mm., the longer (sagittal) diameter about 12 mm. 

 The length of the horns is 70 mm. In a f rontal view the 

 outer contour of the horns is very slightly concave and the 

 inner correspondingly a little convex. The distance between 

 the tips is 34 mm. 



The hoofs are black, the length above 15 mm. 



