PETROMYS TYPICUS.— Smith.* 
Mammalia. — Plate XX. 
P. capite, cerviceque superne, etiaraque corporis lateribus antice brunneo-griseis, flavo brunneo delicat 
penicillatis ; regione nasali, dorsoque rufis; corporis lateribus partibusque inferioribus, flavo-brunneis 
griseo admixtis; mento, regionibusque ad oris cingula subochreis; cauda mystacibusque n.gncanti us. 
Oculis subnigris. 
Longitudo corporis cum capite, 7 unc. 6 lin. ; caudse, 5 unc. 9 lin. 
Petromys typicus, Smith. South African Quarterly Journal, No. 5, page 2. 
Colour.— The upper and lateral parts of the head and neck, together with 
the sides of the body, anteriorly brownish grey, delicately pencilled with 
yellowish brown ; the space under each ear finely grizzled with white. The 
extremity of the nose, the back, and the base of the tail, superiorly, intei 
mediate between reddish orange and chesnut-brown, sparingly pencilled wit 1 
black ; sides of body, lower surface of neck and belly, light yellowish brown, 
mixed with brocoli-brown. Upper lip, angles of mouth and chin, daik cream- 
yellow. Tarsi yellowish-brown. Tail, whiskers, and hairs on margin ot euis, 
rusty black. Eyes brownish black. Nails a dark horn-colour. Incisoi 
teeth of both jaws, dark sienna-yellow. Hairs near to the skin, generally a 
dirty ash-grey. , 
Form, &c.— Figure long, and moderately robust. Head rather long ; nose 
rounded' and full— its apex bare and black; the forehead, and upper part ot 
L head slightly convex. Ears rather small, semi-circular, and sparingly 
covered with short, rigid hair. Eyes moderately large and rather prominent. 
Whiskers long and rigid; and on each cheek, immediately behmd the eye, 
. For generic characters of Petromys, see South African Quarterly Journal, No. 5, page 2, (1831); 
and Id. second series, vol. i. P a S e U6- 
