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a different species. Fortunately Dobson has given a very full 

 description of his specimen, and excellent figures of the skulls of 

 both his and Smith's specimens. 



I have been able to examine three specimens from the collection 

 of the Maritzburg Museum, two mature and one young. The fur in 

 the two adults is brownish grey, not very dissimilar to Smith's figure, 

 but the heads are rather darker. In the young specimen the back 

 is almost black, and the greater part of the head light grey. There 

 can be little doubt, however, that the young animal belongs to the 

 same species as the others. This young specimen removes most of 

 the doubt there may have been as to whether Dobson's specimen 

 is the same as Smith's. 



The following are the principal measurements of the skull in one 

 of the adults (a female) : Length, 34-5 ; breadth, 21-8 ; height, 16*5 ; 

 orbital region, 7*8 ; dental series, 13'3 ; molar series, 7'7 ; palatal 

 width, 10. 



Dobson gives good figures of the skull, but I cannot agree with 

 him when he says that "■ the vesicular bony prominences in the 

 temporal fossa so well marked in C. aurea [G. asiatica] are present 

 but much less prominent, and hardly visible when the skull is 

 viewed from above owing to the great vertical and inward develop- 

 ment of the posterior half of the zygomatic arch." In my recent 

 paper (on some new species of Ghrysochloris, Ann. Mag. N. H., 

 March, 1907), following Dobson, and not having then seen a skull of 

 G. villosa, I characterised the species as having the " bony projection 

 on posterior wall of temporal fossa very small or absent." This 

 is entirely a mistake. The bony vesicle for the head of the malleus 

 is larger in G. villosa than in any other species. It forms a spherical 

 projection on each side of the skull with a diameter of 7 mm., which 

 is about twice the diameter of that in C. asiatica. Only in G. villosa, 

 and to a less extent in G. trevelyani, is the vesicle so large as to cause 

 the whole side of the skull to bulge out. In G. villosa the vesicle is 

 no doubt to a considerable extent hidden by the huge zygomatic arch, 

 but the back part of the temporal fossa is largely filled up by it. 



The species so far as known is only found in Natal. 



The two adult specimens I have examined are both females, 

 and measure respectively : length of head and body 160 mm. and 

 140 mm., and hind foot 15 mm. and 15 mm. 



Chrysochloeis teevelyani, Giinther. 



This giant mole was described by Glinther in 1875, from speci- 

 mens obtained by Mr. Herbert Trevelyan from the Pirie Forest, 



