12 SJOSTEDTS KIL1MANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 2. 



Cole'iira afra PETERS. 



Coleura afra PETERS, DOBSON, Cat. Chiroptera p. 365. 



Usambara: 3 alcoholic specimens from the Mkulumusi caves, near Tanga */c 1905. 

 - 2 dry specimens from the same caves at Tanga 2 /7 1906. 



Insectivora. 



Crocidura fischeri PAGENSTECHER. 

 Crocidura fischeri PAGENSTECHER, Jahrb. wiss. Anstalt, Hamburg 1884 p. 34. 



Me.ru: 1 specimen from a termite hill on the Massai steppe near the river Ngare 

 na nyuki 2 %o 1905. 



Crocidura hirta (PETERS). 



Sorex hirtus PETERS, Reise nach Mossambique. Saugethiere p. 78. 

 2 specimens from the bush steppe between Kilimandjaro and Mem (between Ki- 

 bonoto and the Natron lakes), 3 / 1905. 



Crocidura runiosa THOMAS. 



Crocidura fumosa THOMAS, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. 14. 



Kilimandjaro: 2 specimens from Kibonoto resp. 4 /7 and 10 /4 1905 - - 1 sp. from 

 the cultivated zone, Kibonoto, 1,300 1,900 m. - - Meru: 1 specimen from Ngare na 

 nyuki 1905 4 spec, under the bark of an old tree trunk in the acacia forests at Ngare 

 na nyuki, Nov. 1905. 



My friend Mr. OLDFIELD THOMAS has kindly communicated in a letter that he 

 agrees with me concerning the determination of one of these specimens which was sub- 

 mitted to him for inspection. 



These specimens were almost blackish but there is also a brown face of the same 

 species. 



Crocidura fumosa THOMAS; brown face. 



Kilimandjaro: 5 specimens from Kibonoto, July 1905 1 sp. Nov. 1905 Meru 

 low lands 1 sp. 86 /i 1906. 



Crocidura maurisca THOMAS. 



Crocidura maurisca THOMAS, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7. Vol. 14. 



Kilimandjaro: 1 specimen from Kibonoto, 19 /4 1906. -- Meru: 4 specimens from 

 the acacia forests at Ngare na nyuki, Nov. 1905. 



This species was originally described from British East Africa. Mr. THOMAS 

 has kindly stated the correctness of this determination. 



