178 MAMMALS FROM MOSSAMEDES. 



tions although its geographical distribution is a rather 

 wide one. The type , a female , described by Smith was 

 obtained upon the banks of a river near to the Tropic of 

 Capricorn, Peters collected several specimens in Mozam- 

 bique; he reports that »man sie nicht haufig antriflt." 

 Kirk (Mammals of Zambesia, P. Z. S. L. 1864) believes 

 this to be the species seen on the river Rovuma , in lat. 

 IP South. 



In V. d. Kellen's collections is a single specimen , an 

 adult male, from Suppe , 8 June 1885. 



Iris black. 



20. Erinaceus frontalis Smith. ^) 



One specimen , a female , from Humpata, 8 February 1885. 

 Iris dark brown. Called by the Boers »Krimpystervark." 



21. Crocidura mariquensis Smith. 



Tioo female-specimens , an adult and a nearly adult one, 

 from Humpata, 27 June 1885 and 2 July 1885. 



Iris brown. 



The two type-specimens seen and described by Smith 

 were obtained in a wooded ravine near the Tropic of the 

 Capricorn. 



The specimens before me agree very well with Smith's 

 description and figure, but without having had the types 

 in hands I cannot be sure of my identification. Every one will 

 be convinced that the study of the Soricidae is a very dif- 

 ficult one , and in my case the difficulty increases as Smith 

 gives no measurements of the hind feet and says nothing 

 else about the teeth as that the incisors are white. 



I find a large difference in the length of the hind feet 

 of my specimens compared with Smith's figure. It seems 

 to me that as to the hind feet his figure is misdrawn and 

 indeed in looking at that figure one gets the impression 



1) Cf. Dobson, a Monograph of the Insectivora, 1882, Part I, p. 18. 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum , "Vol. IX. 



