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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
NESOKIA. 
Nesokia, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. x. 1842, p. 264. 
Form stouter than that of Mus norvegicus, with much heavier deeper muzzle and 
shorter tail. Incisors flat and very broad. Molars divided by plain, almost straight, 
transverse bars of enamel. Skull approaching in shape to that of the more fossorial 
BMzomys. 
Nesokia bacheri, Nehring. (Plate L.) 
Nesokia sp. ?, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 524 ; Tristram, Fauna Palest. 1884, p. 12, 
Nesokia bacheri, Nehring, Zool. Anz. 1897, p. 503. 
S ? . Shaluf, near Suez. Mr. W. H. Beyts. 
3 dj ^ • Shaluf. Bev, W. Statham. 
The hands are white above and below, and the claws (which are strong) are brown 
towards their bases. The upper surface of the fore feet is sparsely clad with brownish 
hairs, and the Angers with white hairs ; the palmar surface nude. Pollex reduced to 
a tubercle, but furnished with a well-defined but minute flat nail. 
Three digital tubercles. A large tubercle, nearly equal in size to two of the 
digital tubercles, placed on the internal border of the metacarpus, and a still 
larger and more prominent tubercle on the palmar side of it. Immediately above 
the wrist there is a prominent rounded eminence, with a solitary bristle occurring 
among the hairs that are sparsely distributed over its surface. 
Upper surface of the hind foot and bases of toes very sparsely clad with brownish 
hairs. Plantar surface nude and somewhat livid. Claw^s strong, brown at their bases. 
Four prominent digital tubercles on the hind foot. A metatarsal tubercle a little 
way above and slightly internal to the tubercle at the base of the fifth toe, and a much 
larger tubercle situated still more proximally and on the inner side of the metatarsus. 
This tubercle or pad is slightly inwmrdly curved and projecting at its free end. 
Tail rather thick, short, ringed, but very sparsely clad with very short feeble hairs. 
The base nearly nude, flesh-coloured, the remainder brown. The transverse rings on 
the middle of the tail number 14 to each 10 mm. There are 131 rings in all, each 
ring being made up of separate scales. The ears are broad and rounded at their 
tips ; they are very sparsely clad with short hairs, and there is a broad livid margin, 
the middle of the conch anteriorly being pale flesh-coloured. 
The basal half of the fur is sooty grey, the terminal half being pale yellowish brown, 
feebly tipped with brown. Scattered among the fur are numerous long hairs, more 
