138 MR. E. T. BENNETT’S NOTICE OF CRYPTOPROCTA, 
The body is slender, and the limbs robust and of moderate length ; the head narrow 
and slightly elongated ; the glandular muzzle small; the nostrils with a deep lateral 
sinus ; the moustaches numerous and stiff, the longest exceeding the head in length; 
the eyes rather small, and placed above the angle of the mouth, the opening of which 
is not much prolonged backwards; the ears unusually large, rounded, with a fold on 
the posterior margin and one or two sinuosities within, hairy both within and without, 
except in the auditory passage; neck slender; anterior limbs somewhat shorter than 
the posterior ; tail, which appears to be mutilated at the extremity, as long as the body, 
reaching when retroverted to between the ears, perfectly cylindrical, and uniformly 
hairy ; soles of the anterior feet naked to the whole extent of the carpus, of the poste- 
rior nearly to the heel ; claws retractile, five on each foot ; on the anterior sharp pointed 
and edged, compressed, curved, short, and cat-like; on the posterior rather larger, 
compressed, less curved, and obtuse. The toes are united nearly to the tips; on the 
fore feet the middle is the longest ; those on each side are scarcely shorter, and nearly 
equal to each other ; the innermost and outermost also nearly equal to each other, but 
still shorter than the adjoining ones: on the posterior feet the third and fourth toes are 
nearly equal and somewhat longer than the second and fifth, the thumb being consi- 
derably shorter. 
The colour of the whole upper and outer surfaces is of a somewhat light brownish red, 
resulting from a mixture of brown and straw colour, in rings of greater or less extent, 
on each hair; below and internally on the limbs it is less deep, the individual hairs 
being of a more uniform colour. 
The hairs are short, smooth, and even soft to the touch, and slightly crisped ; mea- 
suring on the body and tail from three quarters of an inch to an inch in length, and 
becoming shorter on the head and limbs. The moustaches are black at the base and 
become lighter at their tips. At the base of the ears externally the hair is rather long 
and somewhat darker coloured, but shorter and thinner at their tips; the anterior part 
of their inner surface has a tuft of much longer hairs than the rest. 
The measurements are as follows : 
Inches. 
Length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail . . . . 1345 
of the tail (probably not quite entire) . . . .. . ILS 
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