MACROSCELIDES RUPESTRIS.— Smith. 
M 
Mammalia. — Plate II. 
. capite, dorso, lateribusque pallid^ fulvus, nigro-penicillatis ; infra albus, ochreo tinctus > " 
brunnea, nigro-penicillata ; cruribus fulvo-albis ; labio superiore, circuloque oculan ^ 
macul&que post aures divide fulvis ; proboscide fulvo-albo, supra hnea longitudma c nigra 
basin ; oculis subnigris. 
Longitudo corporis cum capite, 6 unc.; caudas 4tj ad 5 unc. 
Macroscelides rupestuis, Smith. — Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London > 1 
Colour.— The surface- col our of the upper and lateral parts of the head 
and of the back and sides of the body intermediate between wood-brown and 
sienna-yellow,— the tint darkest on the head, brightest on the back, and 
palest on the sides, and on all, more or less distinctly brindled or bro veil n 
the presence of fine black hairs, which are freely intermixed with the iur. J ne 
upper lip, a ring round the eyes, the lower part of the sides and the whole o 
the under parts of the body white, faintly tinted with ocluy yellow. Legs am 
feet tawny white. Tail yellowish brown, darkest above, and penci led with 
black, particularly towards the point. The nape of the neck and the tur 
immediately behind the base of the ears bright i ufous ye ow , 
coating the inner surface of the ears, and the long tutt w tic t gua 
meatus auditorius white ; on the outer surface it is partly yellowish brown , and 
partly dusky white. Proboscis rusty white, with a long.tud.nal black-brown 
stripe above towards the base ; whiskers black, some of the br, sties wlnte 
the base ; eyes almost black ; nails a da* b° r "'“ d t , lan „ lat „f M. 
Form, fcc.-Figure rather robust, yet better p I conBid erably 
Typicus. Head behind the eyes broad and nearer , he 
thicker at its base than at its ape , J rather , ong and of a some . 
ears than to the base of the l jr0 “ lo| ’ erab| coated wit h short fur, their outer 
what oval shape the.rronCTSur^dric a i ^ tWcker at the base than the 
surface almost J» • 1 - e hair wh ich, except at the apex, is very 
extremities bu, little removed from the other toes. 
