ARKIY FÖR ZOOJ.OGI. 



BAND. 3. N:o 3. 



Oii a iie>v Orj cteropus from Northern Coiigo and 



some remarks on tlie dentition of tlie 



Tubiilideiitata. 



By 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 

 Read September 9th 1905. 



Lieutenant Karl Eriksson has kindly presented to the 

 R. Swedish Museum of Natural History the complete skeleton 

 and two pieces of the skin of a large Orycteropus from Nor- 

 thern Congo. This valuable specimen does not agree Avith 

 any of the five species (or subspecies?) of Orycteropus hi- 

 therto described. I venture therefore to describe it as new 

 and name it, in honour of the donor, Orycteropus erikssoni, 

 and it is to me a great pleasure to introduce into the zoo- 

 logical nomenclature a name which already has made itself 

 honourably known in the history of this science by the dis- 

 covery of the Okapi some few years ago ^ 



Unfortunately the descriptions of some of the species of 

 the genus Orycteropus are not very complete. The characte- 

 ristics of O. erikssoni might therefore be best ehicidated by 

 comparing them, one after the other, with the corresponding 

 ones of the other species. 



To describe the colour of an Orycteropus is, at least some- 

 times, a rather difficult task, because it depends greatly upon 



1 Lieutenant Karl Eriksson delivered to Sir Harry Johnston tho 

 first speciniens of this peeuliar aninial, as is well known. 



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