Bibliographical Notice. 209 



Dimensions of the type (as given by Sundevall) : — 



Head and body 90 ram. ; tail 44 ; hind foot (c. u.) 13. 



Hab. Bahr el Abiad. 



It seems probable that fulvaster is only a colour-phase of 

 Sundevall's sericea ; if this should be the case, the name 

 fulvaster must stand owing to page priority, sericea and 

 strauchii then being placed as synonyms o{ fulvaster. 



(f) Crocidura macrodon, Dobs. 



Crocidiira macrodon, Dobson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (G) vol. v. p. 226 

 (1890). 



A medium-sized species. 



Colour not described. 



Skull with long anterior incisors, third upper unicuspid 

 broader than second. 



Dimensions of the type (as given by Dobson) : — 



Head and body 68 mm. ; tail 46 ; hind foot 14 ; ear 8"5. 



Skull : '' distance of the tip of first incisor from apex of 

 principal cusp of the last premolar 5^." 



Hab. "Sudan?" 



Type (in spirit). No. 1968. Zoological Museum, Petro- 

 grad. 



It is probable that this shrew is allied to i\\e fumosa group, 

 but from the description alone it is impossible to arrive at 

 any true idea of the affiuities of the species. 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Manual of the New Zealand IfoUusca. Atlas of Plates. By H. 

 Sttxer. Published by the Authority of the Government of New 

 Zealand. 72 Plates, with Explanations. 



When reviewing the text of this work in our number for July 1914 

 we expressed the hope that the plates, when they arrived, would 

 prove superior to the text in "get up." 



This we are now glad to be able to state is the case. Not that 

 the whole of the seventy-two plates composing this Atlas are of 

 equal merit — some are decidedly poor, and the figures based on 

 photographs leave much to be desired. On the other hand, the 

 reproductions of the author's own careful drawings of the Endo- 

 donts are excellent. In all cases, however — and this is the 

 important point, — the species delineated are clearly recognizable, 

 which, alas ! is often not the case in some quite beautifully executed 

 plates where artistic licence has been taken with the subjects. 



