GRAPHIURtTS CAPENSIS. 
bristles about midway between the muzzle and the eye, and a few others of the 
same description towards the tip of the nose and also above the eyes. Mouth 
rather small, the upper lip divided, the furrow extending upwards to the summit 
of muzzle; eyes small and prominent; ears short, semicircular, and thinly 
sprinkled with short, rather rigid hairs. Tail bushy, the hair about an inch 
in length and rather rigid, generally recumbent, but towards the point diver- 
gent to the sides. Tarsi and toes short, the latter four in number on the fore- 
feet and five on the hinder ones ; they are all directed forwards, the two 
middle ones nearly of equal length and longest, the outer one slightly shorter, 
the innermost considerably the shortest ; soles of the feet furnished with four 
warty callous tubercles, and each toe near its point also with a prominent 
conical callosity ; nails short, weak, slightly curved, and covered by procum- 
bent, rigid hair. Teeth : — incisors of upper jaw short, plain anteriorly and 
obliquely truncated at the point, the outer edge of each most prominent ; in- 
cisors of lower jaw long, slightly curved, and flattened, the point of each with 
a sharp cutting edge. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
inches. 
Lines. 
Length from the front of the muzzle 
Length of the hinder legs 
i 
7 
to the tip of tail 
8 
6 
of the tarsus of fore legs and 
of the tail 
4 
e 
toes 
0 
5 
Distance between the muzzle and the 
of the tarsus of hind legs and 
eye 
0 
6 
between the eye and the ear 
0 
6 
Height at the shoulder 
i 
9 
Length of the fore legs 
1 
1 
The individual described is the only adult specimen I met with in South Africa, and the 
Hottentot who killed it, stated that it was running to and fro upon the branches of a tree when 
he first saw it, but that the moment it discovered him it remained motionless. Nothing 
is known concerning its habits. A young individual I once saw in the possession of a dealer, 
and from it I drew the characters given in my description of Myoxus Ocularis* 
* Zoological Journal, vol. iv. p, 439. 
