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Cyu'wtix sp/(in.si, de Wint. 



Wlien Sehiter's ^fammaL^ of South Africa was wiitten this nicei- 

 kat was known only from the oi'iyinal skull, which was obtained by 

 8elous at Essex\ale, Matabelelaud. Since then Mr. De Winton has 

 pul)lished a coloured plate and the description'-* of a skin from the 

 Linyanti River. 



This species is very connnon ai'ound Bulawayo, and there are no 

 less than eight skins and skulls in our collection, six of them being 

 obt^iined close to Bulawayo and two at Nyamandhlovu, about forty 

 miles north oi the town. The former may be regarded as topotypes, 

 for Essex\ale, where Selous obtained the original skull upon which the 

 species was founfled, is only about thirty miles away. They agree very 

 well with the description given by iJe Winton which I have referred 

 to above. The average flesh measurements of these six Bulawayo skins 

 are a.s follows : — 



Head and bodv 399 nun. : tail (without hairs at tip), 302 ; hind 

 foot (s.u.). 96 : ear,' -41. 



Graphi'iirus yriselda, Schw. 



There are several examples of this species in the Rhodesia Museum. 

 It is the common dormouse of the district around Bulawayo, living 

 in trees, but often making a temporary home in stacks of firewood. 

 The type and five other examples taken at the same time were collected 

 by Messrs. Woosnam and Dent at Kuruman, Bechuanaland, in 1904. 

 It is described by Mr. H. Schwann, P.Z.S., 1906, i, p. 105. 



(Jraphiurns platyops, Thos. 



This is a species which up to the pz'esent was only known from 

 the t}7>e which was obtained at Enkeldoorn, Mashonaland, by INIr. 

 J. ff". Darling for the British Museum. Two examples have recently 

 been collected at Syringa, Matabeleland, by Mr. T. N. Micklem, who 

 has kindly presented them to the Rhodesia Museum. 



Sclater in his Mammah of Sorith Africa seems to have doubted its 

 distinctness from G. murinn^, and gives but a ver}'^ scanty description 

 of it : and the full description, by Mr. O. Thomas in the Ann. Mag. 

 Kat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. xix, p. 388, should, therefore, be compared. 



Saccostomus hilda', Schw. 



The Rhodesia Museum possesses two examples of tliis species : one 

 collected by myself at the Rhami River, about twelve miles west of 

 Bulawayo, and the other obtained at Hillside, some three miles south- 

 east of the town. The only previous recoi'd is the original series 

 collected by Messi-s. Dent and Woosnam at Kuruman in Bechuana- 

 land. and described by Mr. H. Schwann in the Froce.p.dimjx of the 

 Zoological Society, 1906, i, p. 101. 



" P.Z.S., 1901, p. 1. 



