tieio African Mammals, '611 



Dimensions of the type, teeth uiiwoni (measured in the 

 flesh) :— 



Head and body 165 mm. ; tail 138 ; hind foot 31 ; 

 ear 20. 



Skull: greatest length 37 ; condylo-incisive length 35"7; 

 greatest breadth 19*8; nasals 11-5; interovbital breadth 5*5; 

 ])alatilar length 18; palatal foramina 9"8 ; upper molar 

 series 7*1. 



Hah. Kigezi, Mfumbiro region, S.W. Uganda. Alt. 6000'. 



Type. Young adult female. Original number 1985. Col- 

 lected 10th April, 1911, by Robin Kemp. One specimen. 



Of twelve specimens of E. tv<damba\ mostly of greater age, 

 from various localities in Khodesia and Southern Congo, not 

 one has a hind foot approaching within 4 or 5 mm. the length 

 of th,e foot in the present animal, which evidently represents 

 a distinct longer-looted form. The skull does not appear to 

 differ in any respect. 



Lophuromys prittiei, sp. n. 



A long-tailed species of the L. woosnami group. 



General proportions about as in L. woosnami^ though the 

 animal is a little larger, the feet longer, and the tail is a little 

 shorter than the head and body, instead of being usually a 

 little longer. Fur and colour just as in L. looosnami^ except 

 that the isolated yellowish hairs which sprinkle the coat of 

 that species are almost entirely absent. 



Skull rather longer than that of L. woosnami. Interorbital 

 region of different shape, the true interorbital part lengthened 

 at the expense of the intertemporal, the distance from the 

 anterior corner of the orbit along the rounded supraorbital 

 border to the point where the latter cuts the postorbital ridge 

 5 mm, as compared with about 3*5. The ridges themselves 

 not evenly divergent, but concave outward to a point on the 

 fronto-parietal suture, where a postorbital angle is formed. 

 Bar below anteorbital foramen rather more normal than in 

 L. wooknami, broader (1*9 mm. as compared with 1"6), its 

 anterior edge more convex. Palatal foramina not penetrating 

 so far backward, their hinder end level with the middle of 

 the middle cusp of the front lamina of m\ 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 114 mm.; tail 110; hind foot 25"2 ; 

 ear 21-5. 



Skull: greatest length 32 ; condylo-incisive length 28"7 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 14*5 ; nasals 14'G ; interorbital breadth 6'5 j 



