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the muzzle elongated, the snout distinctly bilobed, and the nostrils 

 lateral ; the openings are nearly circular, and not visible from ahove. 

 The whiskers are white ; the longest are half an inch ; there are about 

 thirty on each side. The muzzle and chin are nowhere naked, but are 

 covered with whitish, rather rigid hairs, less than one-sixteenth of an 

 inch long. The ears are short, and concealed in the fur. The auricla 

 covers the opening ; on lifting it the edges of the antitragus and anti- 

 helix are seen to be ciliated at the edges with appressed, white, short 

 hairs; anterior face of ear naked, posterior covered with fur. The body- 

 fur is rather loose and short ; on the back the longest hairs measure a 

 little more than two and one-half lines. The tail is one-half inch to end 

 of hairs ; about five lines to end of vertebrae ; it is slender, nearly terete, 

 well clothed with hairs, has no distinct pencil. The tail is darker above 

 than below; on the anterior side the hairs are granular from an ap- 

 parently white substance resembling dried gum arable, which is attached 

 to the ends of many of the hairs ;■ this is evidently an abnormal condi- 

 tion of the specimen. The feet are rather broad and full ; the hinder 

 are once and a half the length of the front. The feet and hands are well 

 covered above with white, shining, appressed hairs ; both are naked be- 

 low ; all the toes and fingers have well developed claws, at the bases of 

 which are red spots, formed, evidently, by the accumulation of blood af- 

 ter death. The three middle fingers are longest, ar.d nearly equal ; the 

 same is true of the toes. The first finger is larger than the very small 

 thumb ; the end of its claw extends to penultimate joint of second finger. 

 The feet have six tubercles; on the hands I can discern but five. 

 The fur is lead color at base, then light iron-gray, and tipped with olive- 

 brown ; the under parts are of a lighter tint of brownish-gray or light-ash ; 

 the feet and hands are white, and the tail indistinctly bicolor. Length 

 of head and body 2J inches, hind feet .40 inch, tail a little less than ^ 

 inch. The teeth have black tips ; the upper anterior incisor is hooked ; 

 it has a second hook on the cutting edge, a little in front of the base, its 

 point even with the succeeding teeth. The large upper and long front in- 

 cisors approach each other at an angle to near the tips, but do not touch ; 

 they have no internal lobe. The first and second premolars are about 

 equal ; the third is about half the length and size of the two anterior. 

 There is a slight diastema between the third lateral iooth and the first 

 molar. The last molar is scarcely visible from the outside. The lower 

 anterior incisors have each two slight crenulations ; they are stout, 

 curved for the anterior third ; the front two-fifths are jet-black, and are 

 united to the ivory-white posterior portion by a reddish-brown band ; 

 their bases extend back under the bases of the first two lateral teeth. 



