564 M''. G. Dollman on the Afruwi SJireivs 



species, the general colour even darker than in the western 

 giffardi. Feet and tail dark blackish, very much as in 

 fnscosa ; caudal bristles longer and more conspicuous. 

 Sundevall describes the general colour as follows : — '' Totuni 

 auiraale uno colore tinctum ; saturate castaneo fuscum vel 

 chocoladium, vel colore semiuis-coffeae ustae. Venter non 

 pallidior ; cauda et pedes paullulum nignores,'' 



Skull long and rather narrow, smaller than that of giftardl, 

 more as in inanni, but maxillary region not so expanded. 

 Teeth large, second and third unicuspids aboiit equal in 

 size. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 140 mm. ; tail 52 ; hind foot 21. 



Skull : upper tooth-row 15*3; tliree lower molars G*4. 



In the Museum Collection is a specimen of hetlenhorijiaua 

 from Roseires, on the Blue Nile ; the dimensions of this 

 individual are as follows: — 



Head and body 118 mm. ; tail 64 ; hind foot 20 4. 



Skull : condylo-incisive length 33 ; greatest breadth 13 7; 

 least interorbital breadth 65; length of palate 14*8; post- 

 palatal length 14; greatest maxillary breadth 10*5; length 

 of upper tooth-row 15"3. 



Hab. Sennaar. 



The very dark-coloured pelage and general dimensions of 

 this shrew render it easily distinguishable from the other 

 large East-African species. 



(12) Crocidura niart'tensseni, Nenm. 



Croeidura martieusseni, Neumaun, Zool. Jalirb. Abtli. Svst. vol. vi. 

 p. 544 (1900). 



A very large species, equal in size to mann'i, hni considerably 

 darker in colour. 



Colour of dorsal surface rich chestnut-brown. LiMinberg 

 describes it as between burnt umber no. 2 and no. 4 

 (Plate 304, 'Rep. de (\)uleurs '). Ventral surface dark 

 greyish washed with brownish. 



Skull about equal in size to that of hedenhorg'iana, slightly 

 narrower, and with rather smaller teeth. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 140 mm. ; tail 88 ; hind foot (c. u.) 24 ; 

 ear 9. 



Skull (dimensions of type-skull, published by L(innl)erg) : 

 condylo-incisive length 33'3 ; greatest breadth ]3'2 ; inter- 

 orbital breadth 5-9 ; length of upper tooth-row 15"1. 



Hab. Kilimanjaro and Usambara. 



