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VII. — T/ie Sped s of Pedetes inhahitiag Angola. 

 By Martin A. C. IIinton. 



(Published by permiasion of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The existence of a jumping liare in Southern Angola lias 

 long been known. Peters (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 400) referred an 

 imperfect skin, collected by Dr. VVelwitscli in tiie district of 

 CTolungo Alto, to Pedetes coffer; and later Bocage (Journ. 

 Sci. matii.-phys. nat. Lisboa, (2) no. v. (18U0) p. 19) stated 

 that " M. de Anchieta Pa rencontree a Hunibe, sur le bord du 

 Cunene, ou elle ne doit pas 6tre rare, carnotre voyageurnous 

 a envoyd de cette locality trois individus adultes." No other 

 information has been published about the Angolan springhaas, 

 and no material has reached the British Museum hitlierto. 



Thanks to the kindness of Mr. E. Sanders, of the British 

 Mission at Bihe, the National Collection has been enriched 

 recently by the skins o£ two females, one of the skins being 

 accompanied by a fine skull. These specimens were obtained 

 at Cholinde, a place 20 miles N.E. of Bilid ; they come, 

 therefore, from a district far to the north of that which 

 yielded the material mentioned by Peters and Bocage. 



Mr. Sanders's specimens prove that the Angolan animal is 

 a close relation of P. caffer, being, with the latter, sharply 

 differentiated from the East-African surdnster by the characters 

 of the skull. But in colour it is far daiker than any of the 

 subspecies of P. cafftr, and the skull is of peculiarly long and 

 narrow form. It must therefore be referred to a distinct 

 species, which may be called 



Pedetes ongolce, sp. n. 



Type,—K\\ adult female (B.M. 19. 12. 19. 1) collected at 

 Cholinde, 20 miles N.E. of Bihe, Angola, and presented to 

 the British Museum by Mr. E. Sanders. 



In size, external characters, and skull (as regards the form 

 of the anterior palatal region and the development of the 

 internal ear) closely agreeing witli P. caffer, differing from 

 the latter chiefly in its darker colour, harslier fur, and longer 

 and narrower skull. 



Fur noticeably harsher than in cffer. General colour of 

 upper parts darker, between dull "tawny ochraceous'' and 

 " Sudan brown," darkened on top of muzzle and head by 

 numerous black hair-tips, and dulled on the back by the 



