MACROSCELIDES INTUFI. 
strongly recumbent. For the form of the skull and the characters of the 
teeth, vide Plate XV. 3 a, 3 b, and 3 c. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the tip of the proboscis 
to the point of the tail ... .9 0 
of the head 2 0 
of the proboscis 0 5 
of the ears 0 9 
of the fore-legs 1 3 
of the hind legs 3 0 
Nothing is known of the male. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of the tarsus I 0 
of the toes 0 2| 
Distance between the base of the 
proboscis and the eye 0 9 
between the eye and the ear.. 0 4^ 
Height when standing 2 4 
The comparatively slender figure of this species and the peculiar colour of the back 
and sides, are characters by which it is readily to be distinguished from any of the others 
which have yet been discovered in South Africa. To M. Rupestris it makes the nearest 
approach, but it differs from that species not only in regard to colour and figure ; but also in 
having that portion of the head situated behind the eyes much narrower, and its proboscis, 
particularly towards the base, thicker. For further differences vide Plate XV. and expla- 
nations. 
Of the habits of this species we know nothing. Only one specimen, which was obtained 
upon the banks of a river near to the Tropic of Capricorn, has come under our observation. 
The stomach contained comminuted insects. 
