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The following Molerats were also secured by Van Dam : — 
2 young ad. (J<J, 1 young ad. and 1 juv. $?, Manetsi River, Zontpansberg 
District. 
These specimens are more uniform grey than “ van dami ,” and decidedly 
larger. They have the nasal and other cranial characters of “ natalensis ,” 
but in other respects differ in being decidedly greyer and slightly smaller, 
though not so small as “ komatiensis .” This well-marked form I name 
Georychus natalensis pallidus subsp. nov., characterized as above. 
Type : young adult A, Manetsi River, near Malala, Zoutpansberg 
District. “ Head and body 146 mm. ; tail 14 ; hind foot 25.” Skull : 
extreme length from tip of incisors to back of condyles 39 mm. ; from 
premaxilla to condyles 36 ; from front of nasals to condyles 34 -8 ; basilar 
length 31 ; zygomatic width 23 -8 ; width of brain case 13 -5 ; greatest 
width of mastoid 17-2; inter orbital constriction 7*1; width premaxilla 
7 *2 ; width incisors 4 -7 ; length molar series 6 -5 ; diastema 11 -2 ; 
greatest diameter bullae 10; nasals 12 T x 3-7. 
Amblysomus hottentottus garneri subsp. nov. 
Differs from all previously described forms of Amblysomus hottentottus 
in having a dark-brown stripe down the ventral line from the throat to 
the belly. General colour dark-brown dorsally, with a prismatic sheen 
of coppery green ; ventrally brownish-yellow, more clearly yellow on the 
cheeks, throat, sides of chest, and inner side of hind legs. The skull conforms 
with the characters of the species, but in the two specimens examined 
the posterior ledge of the hindmost lower molar is absent or represented 
by only a very slight prominence where the ledge is normally situated, 
and the posterior ledge of I 2 is also not so conspicuous. The two specimens 
are both old ones, but are smaller than specimens from the eastern 
Transvaal (A. h. longiceps Broom). 
Type : T.M. No. M 1995, old A, Commissioner’s Residence, Piggs 
Peak, Swaziland, 22nd May, 1916. “ Head and body 130 mm. ; hind 
foot 13 -5.” Skull : greatest length 28 -3 ; basilar length 19 -2 ; greatest 
breadth 17 -7 ; interorbital width 8 4 ; posterior height 13 4 ; dental series 
10 -9 ; molar series 6 -3 ; breadth across on side of M 1 8 -6 ; length of palate 
11 *5 ; length of mandible 17 -6 ; lower dental series 9. The other specimen, 
a $ which had one pair of well-developed mammae, is smaller, measuring : 
“ head and body 125 ; foot 13.” Skull : greatest length 27 -3 ; greatest 
breadth 16. 
