64 African Zoology. 



Genus Macroscelides. Smith. 



Incisors?,, canines i\, molars 1 1 — 40. Upper jaw — iHcisord! 

 separated, compressed, and pointed ; canines short, separate, 

 and more or less two-pointed : the Jirst and second molars 

 c'Oiuned loilhfive points, the third and foutlh with four, the 



fifth somewhat frianc^ular and three-pointed. Under jaw — hi' 

 lisors slanting and with cutting edges; canines contiguous, the 



first three-pointed, the others ruith tivo points; the first and 

 second molars compressed, and three-puintcd ; the third, fourth, 

 and ffth four-pointed: muzzle i. arrow, terminating in a loiig 

 subcylindrical proboscis, having the nostrils at its apex ; eyes 

 moderate ; ears large and rounded ; tail rather long, scaty an- 

 nulated, and thinly sprinkled icith short hair ; feet -plantigrade, 



five-toed; hinder extremities very long. 



Macroscelides typicus, Smith. (Cape Elephant Mouse.) Fur 

 long and soft ; the surface colour of the upper and lateral parts of 

 the head pale reddish hrown, sprinkled with white ; of the hack 

 a pale hrowu clouded with hlack ; of the sides pale grey-white 

 or red-white sprinkled with black ; beneath it is a clear white : 

 legs with a covering of short white hair ; ears large, with a thin 

 sprinkling of short whitish hair on both surfaces ; proboscis 

 white ; whiskers long, some of the hairs white, the rest black ; 

 tail thinly covered with blackish hairs above, and with white 

 ones beneath. Length from nostrils to root of tail four inches 

 and three quarters ; length of tail three inches and a quarter. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Sorex Araneus Maximus Petiver, t. xnXii. fg.9. M. typus. 

 Smith. Zoological Journal, v. ii. p. 436. 



Macroscelides rupesttis. Smith. (Namaqua Elephant Mouse.) 

 Fur long and soft ; the surface colour of the upper parts of tlic 

 head pale tawny, of the back and sides of the neck brigl.t 

 tawny, inclined to pale rufous ; of the back pale yellowish 

 brown, sprinkled with black; on the sides it is pale reddish 

 white, and beneath pure clear white : the bases of all the hairs 

 a dark slate-colour. Ears with a thin sprinkling of very short 

 hair, tawny without and white within ; whiskers long, and the 

 hairs principally black ; proboscis reddish white ; legs covered 

 with short reddish white hair ; tail variegated with black, with 

 tawny, and with white, short, hairs. Length from nostrils to base 

 of tail six inches ; length of tail four inches. 



luhabits South Africa, — rocky mountains of Namaqualand. 



South African Quarterly Journal, No. 5, p. 10. Oct. 1831. 



The M.rupestris is rather larger than the M.typins, and is at once 

 distinguished from it by ttie pale rufous patch on the back of the neck. 

 The former is met with upon rocky mountains, where it lives under the 

 loose stones ; the latter occurs only in low flat districts, and lives in holes 

 in the ground. 



CTo be continued.} 



