Mammalia. T49 



posed of narroiv very dislinctly marked transverse lamince, each 

 lamina with a more or less distinct central furrow extending from 

 its outer to its vinet extremity, the first ?nolar of upper jaw the 

 smallest, the third the largest ; in the loxuerjaw the first is the 

 largest and the third the smallest: ears large and rounded; upper 

 lip clef t ; form robust ; legs short, anterior feet with four toes, 

 ■posterior ones with five ; tail muali shorter than the body, sur- 

 rounded with scaly rings, and freely covered with short rigid 

 hair. 



E^iryotis typicus. Smith. Hair long and soft on the body, 

 rather shorter and more rigid on the head. The upper and 

 lateral parts of the head and body tawny or yellowish brown, 

 freely pencilled with black, which is produced in some measure 

 by the tips of many of the tawny-coloured hairs being of a 

 blackish colour, but chiefly by a free intermixture of a series of 

 entirely black hairs which are lon>:er and more rigid than the 

 general covering ; undcr-parts and extremities dull white or 

 yellowish white with a dusky coloured tint shining through it. 

 Front teeth nearly orange-coloured, and each with a longi- 

 tudinal groove on the anterior surface. Whiskers pale black ; 

 ears rounded, projecting considerably beyond the hair and 

 rather fleshy ; inner surfaces with a thin covering of very 

 short tawny hair ; outer surfaces, especially towards margin, 

 with a sprinkling of short, blackish hair ; claws light horn- 

 coloured and but slightly covered with hair ; tail with scaly 

 rings and a scanty covering of short rigid hairs, above brownish 

 black, beneath yellowish or tawny wiiite. The bases of most 

 of the hairs on the body slate-coloured. Length from nose to 

 base of tail seven inches and three quarters ; length of tail about 

 four inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — marshy grounds, — near Constantia, 

 and along the western coast. 



Euryotis irrorata, Brants. Het Geslacht der Muisen, Berlyn, 

 1727, Mus irroratus, Licht. Yley-mms of the Cape Colonists. 



Euryotis unisulcatus, F. Cuvier. Hair of body long and 

 moderately soft, of head and sides of neck short and rii;id. 

 The upper parts of the head, the back, and the upper portion 

 of the sides pale tawny or light yellowish brown, freely pen- 

 cilled or sprinkled witli black, the latter principally produced 

 by an intermixture of hairs which are entirely black and much 

 longer and more rigid than those which are marked with the 

 tawny colour : the upper lip, the sides of the head, and neck, 

 the lower parts of the sides, the chin, the throat, the breast, 

 the belly, and the extremities, dull white, pencilled more or 

 less distinctly ou the sides of the head and neck, and on the 



