204 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



Nasals decidedly longer, broadened and projected forward 

 anteriorly, then abruptly narrowed posteriorly in their middle 

 third, and running backwards to a point, their edges, behind 

 the anterior third, very faintly concave. Supraorbital ridges, 

 even in the oldest specimens, not so thick as in N. Bailwardi. 

 Interparietal smaller. Bulla? as in iV. Bailwardi, conspicu- 

 ously smaller than in N. BacherL Molars larger than in 

 N. Bailii-ardi, the crown measurement of an immature 

 specimen 7'6 mm., as against 6'5 in that animal (90 in 

 iV. Backer i). 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 

 Head and body 185 mm. ; tail 113; hind foot 32; ear IB. 

 Skull : condylo-basal length 44"5 ; basilar length 39 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 27 ; nasals, length 15, anterior breadth 

 5, middle breadth "d'Q; interorbital breadth 6*1; inter- 

 parietal 3*2x6; palatilar length 24'5; diastema 15*5; palatal 

 foramina 6" 2 ; length of upper molar series (crowns) 7' 8, 

 (alveoli) 8-8. 



Ilah. Eastern Egypt. Type from Shaluf, Suez. 

 Type. Old male. B.M. no. 4. 8. 2. 29. Original number 

 59. From the collection of the late Dr. John Anderson ; 

 presented by Mrs. Anderson. 



Several examples of the Egyptian Nesokia, all agreeing in 

 the above-mentioned characters, have now been received 

 liy the Museum. Besides Dr. Anderson's original series 

 there are three, purchased alive in Cairo by the Hon. N. C 

 Rothschild, and one, said to be from the Fayoum, presented 

 by Capt. S. S. Flower. 



GunomTjs I'ari'iis, sp. n. 



The Malay representative of G. heutjaleusis. 



Size decidedly larger than in G. beng densis. Fur very 

 coarse and harsh, though not to be called spiny ; freely 

 mixed with longer piles attaining 3-4 cm. in length. General 

 colour above coarsely mixed black and cream-buff, witiiout 

 the brown tints of G. hevgalensis. Individually the ordinary 

 hairs are slaty at base, black at tip, with a broad cream-buff 

 subterminal band ; the longer piles black, a few of them 

 white. Under surface dull grizzled greyisli, the slaty-grey 

 bases of the hairs more conspicuous than their dull whitish 

 tips. Head and dorsal line particuh\rly heavily pencilled 

 with black. Ears brown. Hands and feet brown on the 

 middle of the metapodials, whitish laterally and on the digits. 

 Tail well clothed with coarse hairs 2-',\ mm. in length ; daik 

 brown above, rather paler below. 



