MUS PUMELIO . — Spar. 
Mammalia.— Plate XLYI. Fig. 1. 
M superne griseo-album, castaneo et subnigro parce penicellatum ; doxso lineis quatuor longitudinals 
' subnigi variegate; capite gracile ; pilis recumbentibus ; auribus ferrugmers. 
Longitddo e nasi apice ad basin candm 4 unc. ; caudm 3 unc. 6 lin. 
Colour, &c.-The ground colour of the upper and lateral parts of the 
head of the back, the sides of the body, and the outer surface of the extre- 
mes grayish white, sparingly pencilled with chestnut and liver-brown, and 
the blck besides is variegated with four longitudinal liver-brown stripes, 
each about a line in width. From the point where the stripes commence, at 
the anterior part of the back, a single line, alike in width and colour, extens 
forwards along the back of the neck and down the face till it is lost on e 
latter between the eyes, -this and the four on the back are distinctly t mug i 
sparingly pencilled with a bright deep reddish orange. The sides and ang es 
of the mouth, the chin, the throat, the breast, the belly, the inner surface o 
the extremities towards the body, and their entire circumference towards the 
toes rusty white. Ears externally and internally intermediate between 
chestnut- and orpiment- orange. The upper surface of the tail is liver-brown, 
the under surface yellowish brown. The incisor teeth of the upper jaw are 
light reddish orange, those of the lower yellowish white ; whiskers and eyes 
liver-brown. Hair towards the base a slate colour. 
Form, &c.— Figure moderately slender. Head small and narrow, the 
muzzle prominent, slightly obtuse, and projecting but little beyond the 
incisor teeth of the upper jaw; ears moderately large and posteriorly semi- 
circular. Hair rigid, moderately long, and recumbent. Extremities slen ei, 
the hinder ones rather long, and the three middle toes of each of equal length. 
Tail cylindrical, long, and densely covered with short rigid hair. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Length from nose 
of tail 
Inches. Lines. 
to base of tail 4 0 
3 6 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of tarsus and toes of hinder ex- 
. . A I 1 JL 
tremities v J 1 2 
Height of the animal when standing 
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. nponrs in everv part of Southern Africa which has yet been visited and is gene- 
This mouse Y P with underwood. In these situations large 
„,, y descried '“ ^“^ncl-^c., .re of.ee .o be obrer.ed s«rroo„di„ s the s.eo, 
“““the' 'ground of some of the larger shrubs, and in the interior of these .masses Mus Pumeho 
forms its burrows, constructs its dwelling place, and produces and lears i s joung. 
