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Fur short on both surfaces, scarcely extending upon the 

 membranes ; reddish brown above, paler beneath. 



Upper inner incisors bicuspidate, the shorter outer cusp 

 nearlj equalled in vertical extent by the unicuspidate outer 

 incisor ; lower incisors trifid, not crowded ; the single upper 

 premolar close to the canine. 



The other species of this subgenus known from Southern 

 Africa are V. minutus, Temm., and V. capensis^ Smith. From 

 both V. grandicUeri is easily distinguished by the large size of 

 the outer upper incisor. 



Length : — head and body I "75 inch ; tail 1*4 ; ear 0*5 ; 

 tragus 0'22 x 0*08 ; forearm 1*25 ; thumb 0*28 ; second finger 

 — metacarp. 1"2, first phalanx 0'45, second phalanx 0*55; 

 fourth finger — metacarp. 1"1, first phalanx 0*28, second 

 phalanx 0*2 ; tibia 0'5 ; foot and claws 0"3. 



The above measurements are taken from the only specimen 

 of this species yet obtained, an adult female w'\i\\ foetus in utero, 

 preserved in alcohol in the Paris Museum, which, by the kind- 

 ness of M. Alph. Milne-Edwards, I have been enabled to 

 examine and describe. It was brought from Zanzibar by M. 

 Grandidier (who has added so much to our knowledge of the 

 fauna of South-eastern Africa and Madagascar), with whose 

 name I have much pleasure in associating the species. 



EIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, 

 being a Narrative of three Years' Travel in Eastern High Asia by 

 Lieut.-Col. N. Prejevalskt. Translated by E. Delmar Morgan, 

 F.E.G.S., with Introduction and Notes by Col. Henry Yule, C.B. 

 Two volumes : London, 1876. (Sampson Low & Co.) 



The expedition of Colonel Prejevalsky and his zoological discoveries 

 have attracted much attention among naturalists for the last two 

 years. It is with much pleasure therefore that we welcome a trans- 

 lation of the narrative of his journey, which gives us an exact account 

 of the unknown regions into which he penetrated and of their cha- 

 racteristic features and inhabitants. AVe welcome it with the greater 

 satisfaction because, contrary to what is too often the case with trans- 

 lations, the text is legibly rendered and is written in an agreeable 

 and lively style. 



Colonel Prejevalsky, it is stated, was already known as an able 

 explorer when, in 1870, he was selected by the Imperial Geogra- 

 phical Societ}^ of St. Petersburg to conduct the present expedition 

 into Southern Mongolia. His narrative commences at Kiakhta, the 

 well-known frontier town on the overland route to Pekin, which ia 



