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LVI. — A neio Deer of the Brochef Group from Venezuela. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



MaHnv^a hricenii, sp. n. 



Similar in many res])ects to M. tema, Raf,, tlie Central- 

 American Brocket (commonly known as M. sartori'i^), but 

 disfinciiished by smaller size and deeper lacrymal pits. 



Coloration ])ractically the same as that of M. tema, the 

 body ricli chestnut-rufous, the head, ears, nape, fore limbs, 

 and hind feet dark brown. Under surface rather light'^-r tlian 

 upper, the bri^-Jit rufous of tlie interramia and throat strongly 

 contrasted with the dark brown o£ the cheeks. Tail short, 

 with a few rufous and more brown hairs on its upper side, the 

 hairs of its lower side white. 



Skull, as compared with that of M. tema, smaller and more 

 delicately built throughout. Premaxilloe with a long nasal 

 articulation. Lacrymal vacuities rather small. Lacrymal 

 pits unusually developed for a member of this group, about 

 7 or 8 mm. in deptii, those of a tema of similar age and 

 sex about 2 or 3 mm. Orbit conspicuously smaller than in 

 the allied form. 



Dimensions of the skull (the animal not having been 

 measured in the flesh, and the skin being so prepared as to be 

 useless for measurement) : — 



Greatest length 15!) mm. ; basal length 143 ; greatest 

 breadth 70; nasals 43*5 x 22-5 ; interorbital breadth 34-5; 

 height of orbit 25 ; muzzle to front of p^ 45 ; combined 

 length of three upper j)remolars 23*5, of wdiole tooth-row 51. 



JIab. Paramo do la Culata, Merida, Venezuela. Altitude 

 3000 m. 



Ti,pe. Adult female. Collected 14th August, 1907, by 

 S. Briccno, after whom I have named the species, in recog- 

 nition of the immense number of mammals which he has 

 been instrumental in discovering. 



While of described species this animal is undoubtedly most 

 nearly allied to M. tema, yet there is a t-kuU in the Museum 



* While Hernandez's Temamazame has been riyhtly referred by all 

 authors, frona Alston downward.^, to the Central-American Brocket' the 

 techuiriil name based on it by liatinetiqae in 1817, M. tenia, has been, 

 for some inscrutable reason, left attached to its larger S.-American ally 

 (M. ni/inus). Even Dr. Mcrriam, who in Isito had written " the Tern i- 

 mazaiue of Mexico, whicli linfinesqiie called M. temti'' {' Science,' i. p. IS), 

 speaks in lUOl (P. JJiol. Soc. Wash. xiv. p. 10")) of " M. sartorii" as the 

 " only known species from Mexico," the name hu uses beinjj- forty-three 

 years later in date than M. tema. 



