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colour and ochraceous-buif (Ridgway). Foi-ehead coloured like 

 back. Upper lips and cheeks buffy, profusely grizzled with white. 

 Hind svirface of ear niummj^-brown. Interraniia and throat 

 between buff and cream-buflf, with no sign of grey. Tail thick 

 and bushy, the hairs ranging in length from 40 mm. at the base 

 to 60 mm. at the tip, terminal inch creamy buff. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — Head and 

 body 367 mm. ; tail 261 ; hind foot 76 ; ear 41. 



Skull : — Greatest length 74 mm. ; basal length 67 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 40; antero-posterior diameter of bulla 19. 



Hah. Deelfontein, Cape Colony. 



Tijpe. Female. B.M. no. 2.9.1.23. Original number 171. 

 Collected 10th March, 1902, by Mr. C. H. B. Grant, and 

 presented by Col. A. T. Sloggett. 



" Native name ' Moshe.' 



" These Meerkats were trapped in the bush-veldt. They live 

 in holes, generally in the middle of a 'wait-a-bit' thorn-bush, 

 and are common everywhere. Their food consists chiefly of mice 

 and insects." — R. B. W. 



10. Pedetes caffer Pall. 

 $ . W. 18. Kuruman. 



" There are a few of these Hares about here, but not eo many 

 as I have seen in other places. They never come out till dark to 

 get their food, which consists of grass and roots, though I think 

 they eat locusts and beetles." — R. B. W. 



11. Graphiurus griselda, sp. n. 



S . W. 48, 49, 66 ; D. 136, 139. $ . D. 137. Kuruman. 



External proportions as in G. murimts ; molar teeth inter- 

 mediate in size between G. murinus and G. namis de Wint. 



General colour of iipper surface luiiform olive-grey, the fore- 

 head and median line of back indistinctly suffused with blackish. 

 Individual hairs soft and fine, about 10 mm. in length, basal 

 four-fifths blackish slate, terminal fifth light grey. General colour 

 of under surface creamy white, bases of hairs slate-grey. A black 

 marking extends from the origin of the whiskers to behind the 

 eye, surrounding the orbit. Ears distinctly larger than in 

 G. murinus, covered with minute haii'S. Upper lips, cheeks, and 

 interramia ci^eamy white. Several specimens exhibit the rufqus 

 sufi"usion on the throat and chest frequently found in members of 

 this genus. Upper surface of hands and feet snowy white, the 

 hair covering the claws. Tail subcylindrical, thickly haired, much 

 lighter in colour than the back, the tip white. 



Skull similar to G. inurinus in general proportions, but with 

 slightly larger bullae and distinctly smaller molars ; nasals not, 

 extending so far back as the premaxillary processes. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the fiesh) : — Head and 

 body 92 mm. ; tail 78 ; hind foot 16'5 ; ear 16. 



Skull : — Greatest length 24'5 ; basal length 20'4 ; interorbital 



