belonging to the Genus Crocidura. 67 



Size of body rather less than in nyansce, more as in olivieri. 

 Fur fairly long, hairs on back 6-6*5 mm. in length, 



Colour above dull cinnamon-brown mixed with dark slate- 

 grey, the new pelage about as in " deep mouse-grey " mixed 

 with "fuscous," and the worn coat " Prout's brown" washed 

 with " Saccarclo's umber." Flanks rather more slaty, the 

 transition to the slate-grey of the ventral surface gradual 

 and indistinct. Belly dark slate washed with greyish buff 

 (" deep neutral grey " washed with " light greyish olive"), 

 darter than in nyansce or olivieri. Backs of hands and feet 

 dirty buff. Tail shorter than in nyansce, brown above, a 

 trifle paler below ; bristle-hairs exceptionally numerous and 

 long, from 14 to 17 mm. in length, and densely distributed 

 throughout nearly the entire length of the tail, greyish in 

 colour. 



Skull with narrow maxillary region; teeth smaller than in 

 nyansce, olivieri, or doriana, about as in flavescens. Upper 

 unicuspids small, especially the second, which appears con- 

 siderably smaller than the third when viewed from above ; 

 last upper molar broad. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 105 mm. ; tail 60 ; hind foot 18*5 ; 

 ear 11. 



Skull (broken) : length of palate 11*9 ; least interorbital 

 breadth 4*6 ; greatest maxillary breadth 7 '7 ; length of 

 upper tooth-row 12*3. 



Hab. Charada Forest, Kaffa, Abyssinia. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 6. 11. 1. 12. Original 

 number 100. Collected on June 2nd, 1905, by Mr. Zaphiro, 

 and presented to the British Museum by W. N. McMillan, 

 Esq. 



The chief diagnostic characters of this species are the dull 

 slaty-brown colouring, the great development of the caudal 

 bristle-hairs, and the small size of the second upper uni- 

 cuspids. Crocidura macrodon, Dobs., which is supposed to 

 have come from the Sudan, is a very much smaller animal, 

 the hind foot being only 14 mm. in length. 



(24) Crocidura olivieri, Less. 

 Sorex olivieri, Lesson, Man. Manim. p. 121 (1827). 



A pale coffee-brown-coloured species allied to zaphiri. 



About equal in size to flavescens, rather smaller than in 

 the nyansce group. Fur of back fairly short, hairs from 5 to 

 6 mm. in length. 



