482 :\rr. R. C. Wroughton on 



but I confess tlic question has given me much trouble. 

 Smuts's fi>rure shows an animal coloured like afra, with the 

 terminal half of the tail white, as in Brantsi, Smith ; but 

 though the description is very long and minutely detailed, 

 there is no mention o£ this striking character. The skull- 

 figures seem to me to indicate on the whole Brautsi, though 

 in very many ways they agree with afra. It is scarcely to 

 be thought that a coast form at Port Elizabeth would 

 correspond with a high mountain form such as Brantsi 

 rather than with afra, the coast form of the Cape. It must 

 also be remembered that Riiddi from Umvolosi, Zululand, 

 another coast form, has also a partially white tail, though 

 the proportion of white is much less than in Brantsi. In my 

 opinion it is practically certain that the characters of several 

 specimens from different localities went to the formation 

 of Schlegeli. I have no specimens from the Port Elizabeth 

 region to refer to, but it is quite probable that a form with 

 white tail and stout teeth may be found there, in which case 

 the name Schlegdii will be available for it ; but meanwhile 

 I do not venture on the evidence available to move the name 

 from its accepted position of a synonym to afra. 



(5) Tatera LobengulcB. 



Gerhilhis {Tatera) Lohenfjulce, de Wintoii, Ann-. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 vol. ii. p. 4 (181J8). 



97. 1. 4. 11-16. Essex Yale, Matabililand [Melons). 



The average dimensions of this species may be taken as : — 



Head and body 135 mm. ; tail 160; hind foot 34; ear 23 

 (de Winton's " 45 " was a slip of the pen). 



Skull : greatest length 49 ; basilar length 30 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 20 ; length of upper molar series 6 ; bullae 10"5. 



(6) Tatera LohengulcE bechuance, subsp. n. 



4. 10. 1. 64-71. Molopo, Beclmanaland (Woosnam) . 



The size is much as in typical Lobengula>, the ground-colour 

 is paler, and there is less grizzling, with the general result of 

 a much paler animal ; the very dark upper surface of the tail 

 found in Lobengu/cB is much less noticeable in this form. The 

 skull is stouter than in typical Lobengidce, with larger bullse. 

 The following are dimensions of some specimens : — 



4.10.1.G4 



(Type) 4.: 0.1.69 



4.10.1.70 



