514 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



basal length, 16.7; palatal length, 9; mastoid breadth, 12; zygomatic 

 breadth, 13.4; breadth outside m^ 10; length of upper tooth-row 

 from front of canine to back of m^ 8; lower tooth-row from front of 

 canine to back of ws, 8.9. 



Remarks. — The two specimens seem to show a close relation to the 

 continental C. emini DeWinton, the type-locality of which is Mosam- 

 biro. The color-pattern, including the white axillar spot, is similar in 

 both, but the Madagascan species is brighter, reddish brown, instead 

 of sooty. The tooth-row in the latter is more compressed than in C. 

 eviini so that the small upper anterior premolar instead of standing 

 directly in the tooth-row, is crowded quite outside, and stands in the 

 angle between the canine and the posterior premolar, which are in 

 contact. This condition is likewise found in the larger C. angolensis, 

 the Madagascan record of which may in reality refer to the new species 

 here described. Of other species recorded from Madagascar, Grandi- 

 dier's Nyctinomus leucogaster appears to be one of the white-winged 

 group, represented on the mainland of Africa by Chaerephon hindei, 

 his C. viiarcnsis and Thomas's C. jidminans are larger species; while 

 Jentink's C. hcmmeleni is brown above and below, with the small 

 upper premolar standing in the tooth-row. . 



Viverridae. 



9. Viverricula rasse (Horsfield). Rasse. 



One specimen of this introduced carnivore was taken five miles 

 south of Berevo. 



Cryptoproctidae. 

 10. Cryptoprocta ferox Bennet. Cryptoprocta. 

 A skin and skull, obtained six miles northeast of Tulear. 



MURIDAE. 



11. Rattus rattus frugivorus Rafinesque. Roof Rat, 



A series of over twenty skins is much yellower in tone than the 

 greyish Roof Rat of the southern United States, and is doubtless 

 referable to this subspecies. 



