LÖNNBERG, ON A NEW ORYCTEROPUS FROM NORTHERN CONGO. 3 



dorso maris fiisci. Postice et in basi caudae setae pauca? 

 longiores nigrae immiscuntur. Pedes densius vestiti sunt pilis 

 longioribus, nigris» — — — . Caput superne tectum pilis, 

 brevissimis, pallidis, — , immixtis nonnullis fuscis»^ 



In O. senegalensis Lesson according to a quotation by 

 DuvERNOY" »Le pelage est d'un jaune clair sur le dos et 

 d'une nuance plus dorée sur la croupe» or with Lesson's 

 own words »Des soies blondes et des soies d'un rouge fauve 

 ardent, couchées, couvrent Jes quatre membres sur les re- 

 gions les plus externes et leur donnent une nuance roux vif 

 qui s'arréte å la base des ongles ou les pinceaux de soies 

 reprennent une teinte jaune blond franche»-'. 



The fourth species, O. haussanus, from Togo recently de- 

 scribed b}^ Matschie* is said to be »marsbraun zwischen 

 zimmetfarbig und hellbraun, iiberall röthlich iiberflogen, am 

 meisten auf der Wirbellinie». die Beine dunkelbraun»''. 



The fifth species O. wertheri Matschie from the »Hinter- 

 land von Bagamoyo» is said to ha ve iron- grey ground-colour 

 with a weak reddish tint in a certain light. Shoulders, legs 

 and feet blackish brown. 



The colour pattern of the Orycteropiis from northern 

 Congo is thus different from that of all other species al- 

 though the differences are not so very great. To judge from 

 the very good photo of the freshly killed animal reproduced 

 here (Pl. 1), the hairs appear to be short all över the body 

 of O. erikssoni. The hairs sit, however, as it seems, more 

 densely on the anterior part of the body than on the po- 

 sterior, which is quite conspicuous when the original photo 

 is seen through a magnifying glass. It is not longer on the 

 legs than elsewhere except perhaps in the axilla. At the 

 base of the claws there are at least on the före feet, to judge 

 from the photo, as well as from remains attached to the 

 claws themselves, tufts of longer hair. O. erikssoni is thus 



^ K. Vet. Acad. Handl. 1842 Stockholm 1842 p. 236. 



2 DuvERNOY: Mém. .=!ur les Orycteropes. Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 3 T. 19. 

 Paris 1853. p. 191. 



•'' Lesson: Spec. des Mammif. etc. Paris 1840 p. 284 (according to 

 Matschie 1. c.) Lesson's work has not been aceessible to me, I regret 

 lo 3ay. 



^ Sitzber. Ges. f. Naturf. Fr. Berlin 1899, p. 104, 



° W. Werther: Die mittleren Hochländer des nördlichen Deutsch 



Ost-Africa. Berlin 1898. IV. Zoologi scher Teil. Säugetierwelt 



von Matschie p. 266 — 67. — This species does not appear to have been 

 recorded in Zool. Record. 



