_M. suprà grisescenti, colore subtùs dilutiore; tarsis
purpureo-nigris: caudâ corpus cum capite æquante: auribus
mediocribus: vellere molli._
DESCRIPTION.—No. 1. The general colour of this animal is what might be
termed black, there is, however, an obscure purple-brown hue on
the upper parts of the body, and the sides and under parts have a
grayish tint, the hairs covering the feet above are of an uniform
deep purple-brown, almost black. All the hairs of the body are
gray at the base: the hairs of the moustaches are long and
numerous, and of a black colour, having one or two white hairs
intermixed: the ears are of moderate size, and very sparingly
furnished with minute dark hairs: the tail is long and slender,
and has small, scattered, bristly hairs, of a brown-black colour.
In. Lines.
Length from nose to root of tail 7 0
of tail 6 6
of tarsus 1 3½
of ear 0 7
from nose to ear 1 6
No. 2. Hairs along the centre of the back chiefly black, and but
obscurely annulated, near the apex, with deep yellow: towards the
sides of the body, and over the haunches, the hairs are more
distinctly annulated, and on the sides of the body they are of a
pale yellow at the apex: on the under parts the hairs are gray,
tipped with dirty yellowish white: the feet are of the same deep
purple-brown hue as in the specimen first described.