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without any trace of under-fur, and it is still very firmly implanted in the 

 skin, without signs of decay. Its arrangement seems to be quite regular, 



SKIN OF GRYPOTHEEIUM, INNER VIEW. J nat. size. 



there being no tendency towards its segregation into small groups or 

 bundles. It is of a uniform dirty yellowish or light yellowish-brown 

 colour, and, making due allowance for slight rufHing and distortion of the 

 specimen, it may be described as all lying in one direction, vertically 

 in the photograph, except at the two upturned anterior corners of 

 the specimen, where there is an inclination from the right and left 

 respectively towards the centre. The longest hairs, which usually measure 

 from 0.05 m. to 0.065 ^- ^" length, are observed in the half of the 

 specimen in front of (above) the letter D. Those in the middle ot 

 the extreme anterior (upper) border measure from 0.03 m. to 0.05 m. in 



