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of the skull, and the breadth of the transverse pro- 
cesses of the caudal vertebrae, are circumstances 
strongly insisted on by Dr. Smuts in his account of 
his skeleton ; and it is these characters that lead to 
the identification of his animal with the present. His 
skeleton was dug up in the regions beyond Litakou, 
and is now preserved in the Leyden Museum. 
The present very perfect specimen was obtained in 
the neighbourhood of the same country, but of its 
habits little is known. 
The evident marks of fire on the scaly surface 
of the back would lead to the conclusion that it had 
been burnt out of its abode. 
AFRIcAN Hepernoe. (Hrinaceus frontalis, 
Bennett.) 
This little animal was obtained by the author in 
Graham’s Town, in 1830, whither it had been 
brought from the neighbourhood of Litakou, and 
was described by Mr. E. G. Bennett, Secretary to 
the Zoological Society, as the Hrinaceus frontalis, 
on account of a remarkable band of long, white hairs, 
passing from below and behind the ears, aéross the 
forehead: a character at once distinguishing it 
from the several species of Hrinaceus previously 
known *, 
* Ihave recently ascertained that Dr. Smith had described this 
little quadruped in the South African Quarterly Journal, for Octo- 
ber, 1831, p. 10. 
