MACROS C E l , ID E S J A
(MomrmuLt_Pi xie .i?/!) __
M am m a lia .— P la t e XIII.
M, capite supra dorsoque inter rubro-aurantium et flavo-bruimeum, nigro ponicillatis; capitis, corporisque
lateribus pallidb flavo-brunncis, brmmeo-penicillatis; labio superiore, oculi circulo, corporisque parti-
bus inferioribus albis; proboscide fulvo-alba, base lined nigro-brunned traversa; oculis subnigris.
L ongitudo corporis cum capite, 4A unc.; caudee, 3^ unc.
Macroscelides brachyrynchus, Report of Exped. App. June, 183.6.
CoLOUEg-The surface-colour of the upper parts of the head and back is
intermediate between reddish orange and yellowish brown, but broken or
obscured by a profuse intermixture of blackish brown hairs, which exist
among the fur; sides of head and body pale buff orange slightly pencilled with
brown. Upper lip, ring round the eyes, and all the under parts white. Tail,
above, deep brown pencilled with ochre-yellow, below, ochre-yellow pencilled
with brown ; legs rusty white; fur of ears and tuft in front of meatus auditorius
yellowish white; whiskers partly black and partly ochrey yellow; proboscis
rusty white and crossed at its base, above, by a blackish brown Hbar; eyes
nearly black; nails black. ||The fur on all parts of the body, towards the
skin, is a deep slate colour.
F okm, &c ..-Figure rather squat; head rather slender; proboscis short
and slightly thicker at base than apex; eyes large and prominent, rather
nearer to the ears than to the snout; ears erect, long, and oval, their tips
rounded; their inner surfaces with a thin sprinkling of fur towards the outer
margins, elsewhere bare, their outer surfaces almost entirely destitute of
covering. Tail cylindrical and fully coated with short rigid hair, that at
apex rather longest; legg slender; inner toe of hinder extremities considerably
removed from the other toes: nails slender and much curved. Fur long,