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the type, wliile the smaller species may be C. gracilipes, 

 Peters. C. hikhgardece is another member of the same group, 

 but is smaller than either. 



15. Paraxerus aruscensis, Pag. 



S . 1037, 1364 ; ? . 1099, 1100. Taveta. 

 <J. 1174. Rombo. 



Typ e locality in German E. Africa just south-west of 

 Kilimanjaro. 



16. Otomys angoniensis elassodon, Osg. 



cJ. 1113, 1123, 1152, 1166,1167,1175,1187,1193,1194, 

 1202; ? . 1114, 1117, 1126, 1137, 1144, 1146, 1147, 1162, 

 1163. Rombo. 



These specimens may be provisionally referred to the East- 

 African race described by Mr. Osgood under the above name. 



17. Otomys divinorum, sp. n. 



? . 1151. Kombo, 5300'. 



A member of the irroratus group, with broad nasals and 

 seven laminae in m\ 



Colour quite different from that of the previous species, 

 the whole back being of a uniform dark cinnamon- brown 

 instead of the coarsely lined and more buffy colour of the 

 common form. Dark rings to the hairs scarcely apparent, 

 brown, not black; light rings cinnamon. Basal four-fifths of 

 the hairs of a rather paler shade of grey than in angonieiisis. 

 Tail shorter than in average specimens of that animal. 



Skull with a markedly broader interorbital space than in 

 other forms, the supraorbital beads almost obsolete for their 

 anterior half, where they are so strong and well defined in 

 angoniensis. Posteriorly they are well developed and strongly 

 and angularly divergent over the front part of the brain-case, 

 from which point they again evenly converge backward. In 

 angoniensis they form an even oval outline, a postorbital 

 angle being but rarely indicated. Nasals very broad ante- 

 riorly, the transition to the narrower part marked by a more 

 distinct angle than in the previous species. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 173 mm. ; tail 80 ; hind foot 26*3 ; ear 22. 



Skull : greatest length 39 ; basilar length 31'7 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 20*3 ; nasals 17'6 x 9 ; interorbital breadth 5*4 ; 

 breadth between postorbital angles 13'1 ; height from supra- 



