210 IIYRAX STAMPFUI. 



types, and this skull shows seven molars in each jaw like 

 in fullgrown specimens of the other species, arboreus, sy- 

 riacus and capensis. 



Dr. Gray (Catalogue of Carnivorous , Pachydermatous 

 and Edentate Mammalia, 1869, p. 281) said that Dr. G. 

 V. Jaeger figured the interparietal of a species sent from 

 West Africa by Mr. Dieterle , which he (Jaeger) names H. 

 sylvestris , and (1. c. p. 284) that Dr. v. Jaeger called a 

 species , collected in West Africa , Hyrax silvestris , that 

 it may be a new species of the genus Dendrohyrax , and 

 that Dr. Jaeger described it in the Wilrzb. naturw. Jahresb. 

 XVI. p. 162, t. 2, f. 15. 



Now I must remark that a journal with such a title 

 does not exist at all, but I find in the Jahreshefte des 

 Vereins für vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wiirttemberg , 

 1860, p. 168, in a paper by Dr. v. Jaeger: »Mit derBe- 

 schaffenheit der Milchz'ahne und Ersatzzahne bei H. ca- 

 pensis kommt nach Wagner die bei H. silvestris Temminck 

 stattfindeude nicht überein , indem die Zahl der Milchback- 

 zahne nur 3 , die der Ersatzzahne nur 6 betragen soil." 

 Von Jaeger therefore has not given the name sylvestris to 

 this species, but only quoted the species described by 

 Temminck. 



Mr. Stampfli procured a Hyrax in Liberia; it was pre- 

 served in spirits and now it is mounted and its skeleton 

 has been removed. As I saw it in spirits I thought that 

 it was a Hyrax dorsalis Eraser {Hyrax sylvestris Temminck) , 

 but at present I see that it belongs to a hitherto not des- 

 cribed species and I propose to name it Hyrax stamp flii. 

 It belongs to the group of Hyraces called Dendrohyrax , 

 characterized by having a white ^) dorsal spot and an 



1) Dr. Gray (Catalogue, p. 292) states that Dendrohyrax dorsalis has 

 the dorsal spot elongate, jmre white, that (1. c. p. 293) Dendrohyrax ar- 

 boreus has a central white dorsal streak, but that (1. c. p. 293) the young 

 specimen of D. arboreus is at once known from the young of D. dorsalis 

 by the want of the dark dorsal streak ! Who can here find out Dr. Gray's 

 lapsus calami? 



Notes from the Leyden, Museum , Vol. VIII. 



