Genus „MACROSCELIDES. 
Mammalia. — Plate XV. 
On the plates intended to represent the various species of Macroscelides 
I • 1 1 rnmnleted and the artist prepared to proceed with the plate ot 
laving ee gtrations> it was discovered that the preparations, which had 
heen°collected to furnish the figures, had either been mislaid or by ace, dent 
^ ft at the Cape of Good Hope. It became therefore necessary either to 
abandon our original intention, or adopt the only other course open to us, 
furnish representations of such mutilated specimens as we m.ght still be 
Zi ta command. Those we found to be very imperfect, yet they never he 
less appeared calculated to afford considerable assistance towards i lust.atn g 
the diagnostic characters, and therefore of sufficient importance to warrant 
us in figuring them. 
The skulls we possess are ,0 imperfect, and bonl 
found practicable on the present occasion to indicate , , iddle of the 
Something like the remains of a longitudinal utan ^ *c .be sen o* “ ' tQ be noticed 
frontal bone of M. typicus, and an indication ot a like amsio 
the parietal heme. The division between the pnnetnl and tempos, bone s a 1, 
if at all indicated. The latter bones exhibit a peculiarity o structure, or a. least 
in question is developed .0 a degree which I do no, recollect „ tarn n^d m any . 0 
animals. The two tables of these bones throughout tor whole exten meede^ntlyt^^ 
each other, and both in the squamous and petrous portions form lag 
taken together, are not inferior in sue to the cavity of the < i n . = ^tions which 
of the onto plate of the squamous portion which produces the P T (/ 
consists entirely of the intern, axillary bones which lodge six Mhe f »»* > ^ 
are large, and not sep.mted from the tempoml fossm , the » J 6^ ^ 
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malar process of the maxii ay a horizonta i rami are rather slender, slightly 
,awis by synchondrosis , . he ascending 
tapered anteriorly, and at the p ex articular condyle and two coronoid 
1, thin, mid each and serrated from it b, a 
processes ; the anterior proce exKnds ftom th e angle of the jaw, is slightly curved 
deep emargination ; the post 
upwards and terminates m a point. 
