346 Dr. A. Gunther 07i Chrysochloris Trevelyani. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XVIH, 



Fig. 1. Hycde NUssoni, voung male. 1 a. Lower antennae. 1 b. Guatho- 

 pods. 1 c?. Last pereiopod. \f. Portion of pleon. 1 c. Cfnatho- 

 pods of younger forms, retained in the female even when spawn- 

 ing. 1 e. Pleon of ditto. 1 g. Gnathopods of fully developed 

 female. 1 h. First gnathopod of fully developed male. 



Fig. 2. Hyale Luhhockiana, male. 2 a. Gnathopods of male. 2 c. Last 

 pereiopod. 2 d, Pleon. 2 b. Gnathopods of young. 



Plate XLX. 



Fig. 3. Anonyx serratus, male. 3 a. Antennae. 3 b. First gnathopod. 



3 c. Second gnathopod. 3 d. First pereiopod. 3 e. Pleon. 

 Fig. 4. Proboliutn Spence-Batei. A a. Antennae. 4 6. Gnathopods 



4 c. Pleon. 



XXXIV. — Notes on Chiysochloris Trevelyani. By Dr. 

 Albert Gunther, F.E,.S., Keeper of the Zoological 

 Department, British Museum. 



[Plate XX, figs. A & B.] 



In the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society' for 1875, p. 311, 

 I described and figured a large species of Golden Mole from 

 British Caffraria {Chrysochloris Trevelyani) from a single flat 

 skin. As the discoverer, Mr. Herbert Trevelyan, shortly 

 afterwards retmmed to South Africa, I begged him to obtain 

 more and better-preserved examples, entire if possible, or to 

 procure at least the skull. In this he was so far successful as 

 to send home flat skins of two adult and one younger spe- 

 cimen, and three skulls, one of which is in a fragmentary con- 

 dition. The skins of these examples differ from the typical 

 specimen in the fur being of a greyish brown colour, with 

 scarcely any gloss on it, the under-fur being grey. This dif- 

 ference in the colour is probably due to the season of the year 

 at which the specimens were obtained, those sent last having 

 been killed in the course of the summer. 



The skull represents one of the most singular forms in the 

 division of Insectivorous mammals ; and although its most 

 prominent and characteristic features are indicated in the other 

 species of Chry.sochloris, it differs widely from their skulls as 

 regards general form *. From the occipital crest forwards the 

 skull is nearly equally narrow and elongate, the occipital 

 region behind that crest being abruptly truncated, vertical — yet 



* For compai-ison of the descriptive detail I refer to Prof. Mivart's 

 excellent accoimt of the skull of Chrysochloris, in ' Journal of Anatomy and 

 Physiology,' ii. pp. 130 e/ seqq. 



