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MR. W, E. DE WINTON OTf 



[Apr. 18, 



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

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

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

 present. The hair exceedingly soft and silk-like. 



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

 about the same length as skull. 



The skull is rather shorter than that of G. pallidus, 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 

 considerabl}' constricted^ The length of the entire tooth-row is 

 about equal to that of 0. pallidus, 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 

 juammalian fauna of the oases on the Egyptian side is made 

 known. 



Genus 2. Otocyon. 



Otocyon megalotis. (Fig. 12.) 



Oanis megalotis, Desmar. Enc. Meth., Mamm. Suppl. p. 538 

 (1821). 



Oanis lalandi, Desmoul. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat, iv. p. 18, pi. 

 (1823). 



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

 pi. (1827). 



Eig. 12. 



Skull of Otocijon megalotis, f nat. size. (B.M. 98.3.9.8.) 



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

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

 pi. xx-iii.* (1840). 



