52 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
The lateral musk-glands are strongly developed and emit even in the dried 
state of the skin a quite strong odour of musk. 
Length of head and body of the dry specimen about 67 mm.; length of tail 
84 mm.; length of hindfoot resp. 15 mm. without, 16 mm. with claws. 
Condylo-incisive length of skull 18,4 mm. The greatest breadth of the skull 
cannot be ascertained because it is partly broken on the right side behind, but it is 
probably about 8 mm. Interorbital width 4,3 mm., palate length to gnathion 7,5 
mm., length of maxillary series of teeth 8 mm. 
The anterior incisors have the posterior cusp pointed but not very high, not 
reaching half the height of the anterior margin of the succeeding tooth. First uni- 
cuspid rather large and sharply pointed. The second unicuspid does not reach half 
the height of the first, and it is also a little lower than the third. The third overlaps 
the second so that, if the teeth are seen from the coronal surface, the latter tooth 
looks smaller than it really is. But if seen from the lateral side it shows its real 
dimensions better and proves to be as well much higher as even broader than the 
fourth. The latter is much the smallest in the series, and it does not reach more 
than half the height of the third unicuspid. 
The relative size of the second and fourth unicuspids as described above forms 
an important distinguishing characteristic from Sylvisorex sorella THomMAS with which 
this species, no doubt, is closely related. In S. sorella the second unicuspid evidently 
is much smaller than in the present species as it is said’ to be subequal with the 
fourth, and both are only »about half the height» of the third, while in the present 
species there is as much difference in height between the fourth and the second 
unicuspid as between the second and the third. 
The last upper molar of S. sorella is said to be of »squarish form». In this 
species it is more triangular than square in outline. 
The long-tailed Shrew from Liberia which Minter has named Myosorex muri- 
cauda,’ but which THomas placed in the genus Sylvisorex when creating this,* differs 
decidedly from the present species in having only 3 unicuspid teeth in the upper 
jaw, and in having no »trace of scales or annulation» on the tail. The latter organ 
is also shorter than in S. sorella and sorelloides. 
Crocidura martiensseni NruMANN. 
Neumann: Zool. Jahrb. Abth. Syst. Bd. 6, 1900 p. 544. 
A specimen of Giant Shrew was caught °**: 1911 in the Meru country not 
far outside the forests of north-eastern Kenia. The dimensions of this specimen are 
as follows viz. head and body (dry specimen) 136 mm., tail 89 mm., and hind feet 
about 23 mm. with claws, 21 without claws. These measurments agree rather 
' Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897 p. 931. 
* Proc. Acad. Washington 1900. Vol. II p. 645. 
5 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1904 Vol. II p. 190. 
