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THE HATTOCKS. GENUS MIXOCEBUS. 

 Mixocebus, Peters, M. B. Akad. Berlin, 1874. p. 690. 



This genus contains but one species, whose characters are 

 therefore those of the genus also. 



THE HATTOCK. MIXOCEBUS CANICEPS. 



Mixocebus caniceps> Peters, M. B. Akad. Berlin, 1874, p. 690, 

 pi. L, pi. ii. (Skull.) 



Characters. Snout sharp, with a naked nose-pad ; eyes very 

 large; ears very short, rounded, higher than broad, scarcely 

 appearing beyond the fur, and sparsely covered with short 

 hair ; limbs long, the digits with unkeeled nails ; tail as long 

 as the body, or slightly longer ; inter-maxillary bones more pro- 

 minent than in the species of the next genus, and containing 

 a small incisor tooth on each side ; no inter-parietal bone ; 

 upper canine not vertically longer than the grinders ; the upper 

 pre-molar and molar series of teeth arranged to converge 

 but slightly anteriorly, forming, as seen from the front, a some- 

 what convex line, differing in this from some species of Lepido- 

 kmur, in which these teeth are arranged in a nea.rly straight 

 line. 



Top of head grey, the base of the hairs Mouse-grey, with 

 black or white tips ; a triangular patch on the middle of the 

 head, darker ; band on the sides and middle of the nose dark 

 brown, widening out on the forehead and over the eyes ; a 

 dark ring round the eyes, merging into the dark brown colour 

 of the nose ; front border of the ears, a patch behind the latter, 

 the lips, chin, sides of cheek, and chest a creamy- or yellowish- 

 white ; throat grey ; upper side of the body, outside of the 

 limbs, and dorsal end of the tail, rufous-grey; back portion of 



