456 PROCEEDESTGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. loe 



Family Macroscelididae 



Elephant ulns fuscipes (Thomas) 



Macroscelides fuscipes Thomas, Anu. Mag. Xat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 13, p. 68, 

 January 1894. (X'doruma, Xiam-Xiam country, lat. 5° X., long. 27°30'E.) 



Specimens Examined: Two, the type aud one other from Obbo. 



Measurements: The measurements of specimen CNHM Xo. 67242, 

 an adult female from Obbo, are as follows: Length of hind foot, 29.0; 

 length of ear from notch 23.0; length of nasals 12.2; least interorbital 

 breadth 6.0: greatest width across z^'gomatic arches 16.7. 



Remarks: These are the sole examples of elephant shrews from 

 this section of the Anglo -Egyptian Sudan. They are readily distin- 

 guished from E. rufescens by the darker dorsal color, the dark colored 

 feet, and by the plumbeous base of the hairs of the belh'. 



The type specimen is preserved in alcohol so that any color com- 

 parison between specimens is useless. However, the skulls agree in 

 all respects. 



Elephantulus rufescens hoogstraali, new subspecies 



Type: CXHM Xo. 66704, adult male, skin and skull, from Ikoto 

 (lat. 4°5' X'., long. 33°4' E.), Equatoria Province, Anglo-Egyptian 

 Sudan. Obtained Dec. 20, 1949, by Harry Hoogstraal, original 

 No. 4995. 



Specimens Examined: Forty, from: Ikoto, 31; Torit 9 (1, MCZ). 



Diagnosis: Upper parts between Tawny and Russet with a generous 

 admixture of blackish hairs and all hairs with a minute black tip; 

 dorsal color rather abruptly giving way on the sides to Warm Buff 

 strongly intermixed with black; color of side abruptly terminating in 

 the white of the belly; postauricular spots Warm Buff. Underparts, 

 hands, feet, and supra- and subocular spots white; not all of the hairs 

 white to the base, those of the chin, inside of forelegs and hindlegs 

 and a midventral area pure white to base, others plumbeous at base. 

 Tail dark blackish brown above, hghter below. Braincase relativel}' 

 well inflated, zygomatic arches broad, rostrum relatively short and 

 massive, toothi'ow relatively short and the bullae well inflated. 



Measurements of the Type Specimen: Total length 258; length 

 of tad 130; length of hind foot 36; length of ear from notch 25; greatest 

 length of skull 36.2; length of nasals 13.5; least interorbital width 

 6.1; greatest width across zygomatic arches 19.6; breadth across 

 external auditory meatus 16.8; ^vidth across ]SP-M^ 11.6; length of 

 upper toothrow entire 17.3; length of auditory bullae 6.3; '«4dth of 

 bullae 3.9; condyloincisive length 33.3. 



Comparisons: From the type specimen of ElepfuintiUus rufescens 

 dundasi, this new subspecies differs in: Belly white instead of buffy, 



