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Show 550 MR. W. E. DE WINTON ON [Apr. 18, parts with a dark ash-grey band about equidistant between the base and the tip of the hairs ; below this dark band the hair is silky white, above buff ; on the underparts this dark band js not present. The hair exceedingly soft and silk-like. Ears much longer than the head. In dry skins the ear measures about the same length as skull. The skull is rather shorter than that of C. pallidus, but the breadth across the zygomata is greater; the nasal portion is very narrow ; the orbits very large ; and the front part of the brain-case considerably constricted. The length of the entire tooth-row is about equal to that of 0. pallidus, the teeth being individually larger than in that species, and so set very much closer together. There is very much uncertainty as to the distribution of this species ; most of the known specimens have been brought from the Sahara through Algeria. Dr. Anderson will no doubt throw more light on it when the result of his researches into the mammalian fauna of the oases on the Egyptian side is made known. Genus 2. O T O C Y O N. OTOCYON MEGALOTIS. (Fig. 12.) Canis megalotis, Desmar. Enc. Meth., M a m m . Suppl. p. 538 (1821). Canis lalandi, Desmoid. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. iv. p. 18, pl. (1823). Megalotis lalandi, Smith (H.), Griff. Anim. Kingd. ii. p. 372, pl. (1827). Fig. 12. Skull of Otocyon megalotis, f nat. size. (B.M. 98.3.9.8.) Otocyon coffer, Lieht. Arch. f. Naturg. i. 1838, p. 290. Agriodus auritus, Smith (H.), Jardine's Nat. Libr. x. p. 260, pl. xxiii.* (1840). |