belonging to lite Genus Crocidura. 75 



lightest, the throat, breast, and belly the same colour, only 

 lighter and with a distinct tint of pearly grey." Smith's 

 co-types, which are preserved in the British Museum, are so 

 faded as to make it impossible to add to this brief descrip- 

 tion to any extent. The ventral surface appears to have 

 been darker than in hirta, and merges very imperceptibly 

 into the brownish tint of the flanks. Backs of hands and 

 feet brownish. Tail brownish above, paler below ; bristle- 

 hairs apparently about as in hirta. The coloured figure 

 given by Smith is quite unlike either his description or the 

 co-types now before me; it is evident that either some 

 radical change has taken place in the pigment used or else 

 the artist has painted some entirely different animal ; the 

 dimensions are those of mariquensis , but the colouring is 

 more like what is found in the genus Neomys. 



Skull smaller than that of hirta, with narrower muzzle 

 and smaller teeth; small upper unicuspids about equal in 

 size. 



Dimensions of adult co-type (45. 7. 3. 37) : — 



Head and body 84*6 mm. ; tail 48 ; hind foot 15. 



Skull (occipital region broken) : length from front of 

 upper incisors to junction of sagittal and lambdoidal sutures 

 19*2; greatest breadth 9*4 ; least interorbital 4; length of 

 palate 8 ; greatest maxillary breadth 6*1 ; median depth of 

 brain-case 5'5 ; length of upper tooth-row 8'6. 



Hab. " Wood near the Tropic of Capricorn/' South 

 Africa. 



Co-types. B.M. nos. 45. 7. 3. 37 and 45. 7. 3. 60. 



The affinities of this species are extremely difficult to 

 decide, the co-types being in such a bad state of preserva- 

 tion that it is almost impossible to come to any conclusion 

 regarding the general colour or exact dimensions. For the 

 present it seems most convenient to regard it as related to 

 the hirta group. 



(32) Crocidura hindei, Thos. 



Crocidura hindei, Thomas, Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. xiv. p. 237 

 (1904). 



Allied to hirta, but distinguished by its larger skull and 

 teeth. 



Size of body much as in hirta. 



Colour of dorsal surface bright reddish fawn (near 

 " russet" mixed with " Prout's brown"), the fawn tint 



