CYN1CTIS LEPTURUS.— Smith. 
Mammalia.— Plate XYII. 
C subfulvus, ochreo brunneoque penicillatus; dorso, corporisque lateribus pallide subrufo tinctis, caud 
supra dimidio ultimo pilis brunneo-annulatis vestito ; labiis, mento, caud^que apice subalbis; ocubs 
rubris ; auribus extus rubro-brunneis, intus subfulvis ; unguibus livido-brunneis. 
Longittjdo corporis cum capite 15 unc. ; caudss 9 unc. 3 bn. 
Colour. — Pale buff-orange, the back and sides, particularly towards the 
tail, tinted with Dutch-orange, and very faintly penciled with cream-yellow 
and dusky brown. The back and the sides of the neck are also delicately 
pencilled with the same colours, which seems to be produced by many of the 
hairs of these parts being ringed with pale brown towards their points. T 
first third of the tail above is of the same colour as the hinder part the 
back, the other two-thirds are fulvous, grizzled with dull c ' ,esnut ;^°'™- 
the latter being the colour of the middle portion of each ban; the und^ 
surface is pale buff-orange verging to cream-yellow. The sides of the he 
and the point of the tail are pale cream-yellow, the former sparingly pencilled 
with brown. The lips and chin nearly pure white; the edges and inner 
surfaces of the ears are buff-orange, the outer surfaces pale <*M«uM>ro ■ 
Muzzle, whiskers, and ciliae black : eyes red : nails dark l‘ orn - c ^ ed ^ 
Font. &c -Typical. Figure rather slender and elegant. Head behind 
eves broad and slightly depressed, before eyes slender and nearly cylindrical . 
nCt naked; noftn.s opening laterally ; ears short, and semicvrcu dar w,£ 
S lg I -arris their points. Head ornamented with several tufts of long 
be 'Tl -stL one series on each side of the upper lip, a second on each cheek, 
rigid bristles, O a fourth about midway between the 
1 commencement of the throat, and a fifth over „e 
angles of the m The covering of the animal consists partly of f... 
r»7p C a“rtly of coarse hair; the fur, except on the tail, predominates, and 
