550 



MR. \V. E. BE WINTOX ON 



[Apr. IS, 



parts with a dark ash-grey band about equidistant between the 

 base and the tip of the hairs ; below this dark band the bair is 

 silky white, above buif ; on the underparts this dark band is not 

 present. The bair exceedingly soft and silk-like. 



Ears much longer than the head. In dry skins the ear measures 

 about the same length as skull. 



The skidl is rather shorter than that of G. paUidus, but the 

 breadth aci-oss the zygomata is greater ; the nasal portion is very 

 narrow ; the orbits very large ; and the front part of the brain -case 

 considerably constricted. The length of the entire tooth-row is 

 about equal to that of 0. ixdlidus, the teeth being individually 

 Lirger than in that species, and so set very much closer together. 



There is very much uncertainty as to the distribution of this 

 species ; most of the known specimens have been brought from 

 the Sahara through Algeria. Dr. Anderson will no doubt throw 

 more light on it when the result of his researches into the 

 mammalian fauna of the oases- on the Egyptian side is made 

 known. 



Genus 2. Otocyon. 



Otocyon megalotis. (Fig. 12.) 



Cams megalotis, Desmar. Enc. Mc'th., Mamm. Suppl. p. 538 



Canis lalandi, Desmoul. Diet. Class. Hist. Xat. iv. p. 18, pi. 

 (1823). 



Megalotis lalandi, Smith (H.), Griff. Anim. Kingd. ii. p. 372, 

 pi. (,1827). 



Fig. 12. 



Skull of Ofocyon 7negalotis, § nat. size. (B.M. 98.3.9.8.) 



Otocyon cnffer, Licht. Arch. f. Naturg. i. 1838, p. 290. 

 Agriodus aurihts, Smith (H.), Jardine's Nat. Libr. x. p. 260, 

 pi. xxiii.* (1840). 



