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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
190. Bathyergus suillus , (Schreb.). 
20, Knysna (Grant and Rex). 
191. Bathyergus janetta, Thos. and Scliw. 
1 §, Port Nolloth (Grant). 
192. Georychus capensis , Pall. 
1 old Stellenbosch (S. A. Mus.). 
? 1 jnv. in spirits. No locality indicated (pres. Dr. Breyer). 
193. Georychus capensis canescens , Thos. and Scliw. 
1 ad., Knysna (?). 
1 grav. $, 5 jnv. in spirits, Knysna (Rex). 
The young are born with a white muzzle. 
194. Georychus Yatesi , spec. nov. 
Similar in coloration to G. capensis, but with the upper surface of 
body rich buff-orange, and the head darker ; the skull and teeth also show 
distinct characters. 
Colour : eyes, ears, and forehead all marked with a small patch of pure 
white ; muzzle, tail, and feet also pure white ; forehead black to the white 
muzzle, this colour extending laterally below, but not joining behind, the 
eyes, and backwards above the eyes until lost in an admixture of buff- 
orange in the region of the white frontal spot ; whole of the rest of the 
upper surface of head and body rich buff-orange, with blackish tips to the 
longer hairs, which are most conspicuous just above the tail and on the 
lower back ; the sides of the upper surface soon lose the blackish coloured 
tips and the flanks are clear buff-orange ; under surface of body slightly 
paler than the flanks. The hairs throughout the body are dark brown for 
the basal half. Skull : in general appearance similar to that of G. capensis , 
but with a larger brain case, and a more conspicuous outward projection 
of the frontals in the anterior angle of the orbital region. Cheek teeth 
much larger in the case of the two first than in capensis , while the 
hindmost in the upper jaw is smaller and differs in pattern. The hindmost 
molar in the lower jaw is only just beginning to show on the one side 
(a juvenile character), while on the other it is not much larger, but 
blackened at the tip, seeming to indicate that growth had ceased before 
the tooth had attained its full size. This would seem to be an anomaly, 
as the animal was tough to skin and the skull is obviously that of a fully 
adult specimen. The type was caught at Belfast, Transvaal, by the sons 
of E. E. Yates, Esq., as it was running across the road after a heavy 
hailstorm. Knowing that I was in search of more specimens of a certain 
golden mole, of which my mother bad caught a single specimen at Belfast 
(see Chrysospalax pratensis), Mr. Yates very kindly sent this to me alive. 
Its discovery is quite as interesting as that of the golden mole I was in 
search of, for it forms yet another connecting link between the Cape 
Peninsula and Transvaal highveld fauna. 
Measurements taken in the flesh before rigor mortis had set in are : 
H. and B. 180, tail 25, hind foot 32. Skull (dry) : cond. inc. leng. 49, cond. 
nasal leng. 45, bas. leng. 40, zyg. br. 35 * 2, br. premax. 10, int. orb. br. 9 * 5, 
at outward projecting process mentioned above 13*2, immediately in front 
of process 10*6, br. brain case 19, mol. ser. (crown) 8*8, diastema 15*5, 
leng. M 1 2*3, M 2 2, M 8 2*5, M 4 2, breadth at M 3 8*4. 
195. Georychus beirae, Thos. and Wr. 
1 (J, Beira (Grant). 
4, Beira (Sheppard). 
