helonging to the Genus Ciociduva. 563 



favescens. Backs of hands and feet brownish or dirty buff. 

 Tail rather shorter and not tapering so markedly as in 

 occidentalis, rather more coarsely haired, brownish above, a 

 shade paler below ; bristle-hairs fairly numerous, but incon- 

 spicuous. 



Skull larger than in flavescens, about equal in size to that 

 of occidentalis ; tooth-row about the same, second and third 

 upper unicuspids nearly equal in size, the second slightly 

 broader and with a rather longer cusp than third. Last 

 upper molar fairly large. 



Dimensions (as given by Bocage) : — 



Head and body 116 mm. ; tail 63 ; hind foot 17. 



Dimensions of co-type and topotype in the Museum 

 Collection (in spirit) : — 



Head and body. Tail, 



mm. mm. 



$ (co-type) 112 62 



$ (topotype) 107 63 



Skulls of co-type (broken) and topotype : condylo-incisive 

 length — , 30; greatest breadth — , 12'1 ; least interorbital 

 breadth 5'7, 57; length of palate 12"9, 13; postpalatal 

 length — ,13; greatest maxillary breadth 10, 9'8 ; median 

 depth of brain-case — , Q'7 ; length of upper tooth-row 13'3, 

 13-2. 



Hab. Caconda, Angola. 



The co-type in the British Museum is an adult female. 

 B.M. no. 89.5. 1.2. 



This species would appear to be somewhat intermediate 

 between the occidentalis and nyansm groups ; it is probably 

 most nearly allied to the nyanscB group, but until more up- 

 to-date material is at hand for examination it is impossible 

 to decide the exact affinities of this Angolan shrew. 



(11) Crocidura hedenborgiana, Sund. 



Sorex hedenborgianus, Suudevall, Vet.-Ak. Handl. Stock, p. 174 

 (1842). 



Size much larger than in fuscosa, about as in manni ; 

 general colour very dark. 



General proportions about the same as in manni; tail not 

 exceptionally long. Hairs of back about 5 mm, in length, 

 much shorter than in the long-haired giffardi. 



Colour dark blackish chocolate {" aniline-black '^ mixed 

 with " vaudyke-brown ^'), a faint shadelighter on the ventral 

 surface. This is the darkest of all the allied East-Africau 



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