938 ON MAMMALS FEOM NYASAiAKD. [DeC. 14, 



The differences between this and its ally T. gregorianus have 

 already been detailed (l. c). In naming it I have ventured to 

 associate with it the name of Mr. Sclater, the Society's Secretary, 

 to whose influence and assistance the commencement and con- 

 tinuation of the Nyasa explorations have been so largely due. 



De Beerst's Aulacoclus calamopliagns is said by PousarD;ues * to 

 be larger, not smaller, than 2\ swindereninmis, a skull in the Paris 

 Museum measuring 89 mm. in basal length by 68 in zygomatic 

 breadth. While these dimensions do not exceed those of some of 

 the British Museum examples of T. swinderenianus _ they prove con- 

 clusively that T. calamoj)hagus has nothing to do with T. sdateri. 



52. Lepus crassicaudatijs, Greoffr. 



«, 6. c? 2 ■ Nyita Plateau, 7000 ft., June 1896. 



" Hare shot on rocky ground on the highest peaks of the Nyika 

 Plateau, at about 7000 feet. It is truly a ' rock-rabbit,' which term 

 is generally wrongly applied here to the Dassies {Procavia). It has 

 all the habits of the Dassies, living among rocks in absolutely bare 

 and exposed ])laces, and is very difficult to shoot as it dodges 

 among the boulders. It is very local, living in colonies, and is only 

 found in situations that suit its habits and mode of life." — A. W. 



This Hare has only hitherto been recorded from the Cape, so 

 that the present is a great extension of its known range. 



53. Lepus whytei, Thos. 



a, h. 2 young skins. Zomba, 12/95. 



54. Pbocatia betjcei, Gray. 



a, h. $ and yg. Monkey Bay, Lake Nyasa, July 1896. 



55. POTAMOCHCERTJS CIKEROPOTAMUS NYAS^, Maj. 



a-c. 3 young skins. 



" Young wild-hogs caught near Zomba, and kept in captivity 

 for a short time. The female forms a house or nest of grass in a 

 burrow in thick grass-jungle." — A. W. 



Dr. Major ^ has described the ordinary Nyasa Eiver-Hog as a 

 peculiar subspecies of the Cape animal, for which he finds the 

 proper name to be P. choerojpotamus, Desmoul. 



56. Oeeotbagtjs oeeotragus, Zimm. 

 a. Nyika Range, 6000 ft., 7/96. 



57. OuREBiA hastata. Pet. 



a. d . Zomba Plains, 12/96. 



b. Young $ . Plains S. of Shirwa, 27/10/96. 



Specimen a was shot by Mr. Beswick. It is a very fine old 



male. 



1 Bull. Mus. Paris, 1897, p. 160. 



2 Supra, p. 367. 



