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Mr. Loveridge's example now shows that it is unquestionably 

 a typical Paraxerus. 



Within that genus it renders verbally incorrect my 

 statement, when describing Tamiscus*, tliat the species of 

 Paraxerus, as there restricted, were " of uniform colour, or at 

 most with an indistinct whitish line down each side of the 

 back/' for the light lines of P. flavivittis are exceedingly 

 conspicuous, and anything but indistinct. But none the less 

 the striping is quite unlike that in the black-striped Tamiscus, 

 and is only an intensification of the indistinct whitish lines 

 referred to. 



6. Taierona sp. 



<?. 199. 

 Not determinable on a single specimen. 



7. Steatomys loveridgei, sp. n. 



c?. 201. 1st October, 1918. Type. 



A small pale-coloured species with slender teeth. 



Hairs of back little over 6 mm. in length. Colour very 

 much paler than in other species, the dorsal area near wood- 

 brown, the tips of the hairs pale avellaneous. Sides markedly 

 paler, the hairs with a whitish zone below the pale avellaneous 

 tips. Underside pure sharply defined white. Crown like 

 back; cheeks lighter, like flanks. Ears large, a distinct 

 white patch behind and below their posterior base. Fore 

 limbs wholly white. Hind limbs white, with a narrow line 

 of the flank colour running clown to the ankle. Tail white, 

 slightly darkened on the upper surface by the presence of a 

 lew barely perceptible blackish hairs; its end quite white. 



Skull, as compared with that of S. pratensis, much smaller, 

 narrower, and with very small brain-case. Molars decidedly 

 smaller and more slender. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 77 mm. ; tail 35; hind foot 15 ; ear 18. 



Skull : greatest length 22"5; condylo-incisive length 20'3 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 10"5 ; nasals 9 ; interorbital breadth 3*6 ; 

 breadth of brain-case 10 ; palatilar length 10 ; palatal fora- 

 mina 5'2; upper molar series 3'1 ; breadth of m 1 1*1. 



This little " fat-mouse " is much smaller than S. pratensis, 

 and is probably most nearly allied to the S. minutus of 

 Angola. But its molars are more slender than in the latter, 

 with the anterior lamina of m 1 more elongate, and externally 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) i. p. 33 (1018). 

 Ann. c& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. iv. 3 



