US SJOSTEDTS K1L1MANUJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 2. 



lYIoiii.vs f'allax PETERS. 



1'i'lnnii/x jnllax PETERS Reise nach Mossambique. Zool. Saugethiere p. 157. 

 Kilimandjaro: 1 specimen (with the head crushed in the trap) from Kibonoto V? 

 1905 - - 1 cf specimen caught in a trap at the station at Kibonoto "/u 1905 1 speci- 

 men from Mem low lands ~"/n 1905. 



Tacli.voryHcs splnHlcns ilx-amis THOMAS. 



Tachyoryctes tsplendens ibeanus OLDFIELD THOMAS, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900 p. 179. 



Kilimandjaro: 1 specimen from the cultivated zone at Kibonoto, July 1905 --4 

 specimens from the same locality li; 7 1905 - - 1 specimen from the uppermost part of 

 the rain-forest, Merit, 4,000 m. above the sea 3 /2 1906 - - 1 specimen from the northern 

 side of Kilimandjaro Leitokitok "/a 1906 - - 2 specimens without exact locality. - 1 

 quite young specimen from Moschi, Kilimandjaro, 13 / 1906. 



All these specimens are darker than the typical T. splendent and have their heads 

 sooty blackish and may thus certainly be refered to the subspecies described by Thomas 

 from Mount Kenia. The last mentioned young one from Moschi is quite black all over 

 and I should not have dared to refer it to this species, as the skull is wanting, if I had 

 not had the great pleasure of being favoured by my friend Dr OLDFIELD THOMAS' opinion 

 about it. 



This species lived as well on the steppe as in the cultivated zone. Their heaps 

 of earth resembled mole hills and were seen here and there. They were obnoxious in the 

 farms and the Wadschaggas used to catch them and brought them to me tied to a stick. 



(SJOSTEDT.) 



Myoscalops argenteo-einerens (PETERS). 



Heliophobius argenteo-cinereus PETERS Reise nach Mozambique zool. Saugethiere p. 140. 

 Kilimandjaro: 1 specimen from Ngare nairobi L>ti .-, 1906. 



Hystrix galeata THOMAS. 

 Hi/striA- uah-ula THOMAS Ann. & Mag. Nat. 'Hist. (6) XI, 1893, p. 230. 



Kilimandjaro: 1 V specimen Kibonoto, '/ 1905 -- 1 somewhat younger specimen 

 with the last molar still unused) from the same locality Nov. 1905. - - 1 skin of a less 

 than half grown specimen from the same locality, March 1906. 



The two adult specimens belong certainly to H. galeata and show very clearly the 

 character derived from the relative dimensions of the nasals which have been pointed 

 out by THOMAS. If the relation between the breadth of the nasals at the posterior end 

 of the naso-premaxillary suture and the breadth of the same at the anterior edge of the 

 same suture is expressed in percent, the latter dimension is. according to THOMAS' mea- 

 surements in a Gambian H. cristata 54 "/o, in H. galeata 74 %, and in H. africce-australis 

 52,4 " o of the former. According to my own measurements the same percentages are 

 for two specimens of H. africfe-australis from South Africa, both rather young and with 

 the last molar not fully developed (just cutting the gum), resp. 55,9 and 60,1; and for 



