EURYOTIS IRRORATUS. — Brants. 
Mammalia. — Plate XXII. 
E. supra aurantio-ruber dense brunneo aut nigro-brunneo-penicillatus ; capitis, corporisque lateribiu 
etiamque pedibus similibus sed pallidioribus et lineis minus distinctis ; subtus sordide griseo flavus 
livido-umbratus ; cauda supra brunneo-rubra, subtus flavo-alba ; auribus rufo-flavis brunneo penicil 
latis ; oculis brunneo-nigris ; villo subrigido. 
Longitxjdo ab apice nasi ad basin caudse 8 unc. 1 lin. ; caudee 3 unc. 5 lin. 
Euryotis irrorata, Brants. Het. Geslaclit der Muisen Berlyn, 1827. 
Mtrs irroratus, Licht. 
Colour. — The surface colours of the upper parts of the head, neck, and body, 
are orange red, and umber or blackish brown nearly in equal proportions, 
and most intimately mingled, the one colour as if profusely pencilled with 
delicate lines of the other. The lateral parts of the head and the body, 
together with the extremities, are similarly coloured, only the tints are duller 
and paler, and the limits of the different colours not so distinctly defined. 
The under parts, from the chin to the tail, dusky greyish yellow, and clouded 
by the dark colour which prevails on the deeper portions of the fur. Toes 
superiorly dark umber-brown ; the point of the muzzle reddish orange. Ears 
pale sienna-yellow, freely pencilled with brown. Tail superiorly brownish 
red, inferiorly dusky yellowish white. Eyes brownish black ; whiskers red- 
dish brown. The inner or concealed portion of the fur a dark slate colom. 
Incisors of upper jaw yellow, shaded with reddish orange. 
Form, &c— Head rather narrow, flat behind, anteriorly slightly arched ; 
muzzle rather compressed, and the hair on its point superiorly quite erect; 
nostrils opening laterally ; the tip of the nose about two lines in advance oi 
the anteriormost portion of the upper lip, the latter divided vertical y. Ears 
moderately large, rather long, rounded at the points, and slightly fles ij. 
Body long and moderately robust , legs short; tail cylindncal and tapering 
to the point thinly beset with recumbent rigid hair, through which the cu- 
ticular scale's, arranged in rings, are distinctly visible the tip with a slender 
pencil of rather long and rigid hairs. The three middle toes of hmder feet 
