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MEASUREMENTS. 



No. 312. No. 183937 U.S. N.M. 



(Type, d'). {T. n. nyatna). 



Length of head and body 127. 152. 



Length of tail 182. 208. 



Length of pes 34.5 36. 



Greatest length of skull 39.6 41. 



Basilar length of skull 29.1 30.4 



Condylo-incisive length 34.6 36. 



Zygomatic breadth 20.2 20.7 



Interorbital breadth 7. 7-7 



Squamosal breadth 17. 17-3 



Length of nasals 16.5 17.8 



Breadth of nasals 3.5 4- 



Length of diastema 10.2 10.7 



Alveolar length of upper row of molars 6.5 6.5 



Length of palatal foramen 7. 7-S 



Length of bullae 11. 11. 



Depth of brain-case 12.5 12.5 



Depth of maxillaries at fronto-nasal suture. . 9.3 10. 



Length of mandible 20.5 21.3 



nent white of posterior portion of ocular rings passing into a grayish 

 area behind, anterior corner of eye with black markings; ears well- 

 developed, long, buffy haired at bases, tips dark ; vibrissae predominantly 

 black with some white; tail well-clad, hair shorter than in T. n. nyama, 

 anterior fourth of tail warm buff-colored with white markings under- 

 neath, posterior three-fourths black; top of tarsus light buff; upper 

 surface of feet and toes covered with white hair, soles naked, under 

 surface of toes slightly haired. 



The collection includes an immature specimen from Wobok, 



Abyssinia. 



6. Tatera vicina bodessana subsp. nov. 



Type from Bodessa, southern Abyssinia; altitude 5,000 feet. 

 (Original field-number E. A. M., 301, May 25, 1912.) 



General Characters. — Resembles T. v. pothae Heller, ^ but is dis- 

 tinctly smaller (see measurements below) and is more darkly shaded 

 over the posterior portion of the back and pinker in tone laterally. 



Length of pes 31.5 mm. versus 35.5 in T. v. pothcB Heller. 



Skull. — Similar to T. v. potJice, but smaller throughout (greatest 



9 Cf. Heller, Smith. Misc. Coll., Vol. 56, 1910, p. 2. Specimen No. 163425 

 U. S. N. M. is a cf from the Ulucania Hills, British East Africa, which is of a.1 

 the same size as Tatera vicina Peters, I. c. 



