142 Mr. G. Dollman on the African Shrews 



Skull-dimensions of type and paratype ((?): condylo- 

 incisive length 21, 21*7; greatest breadth 9, 9'3 ; least 

 interorbital breadth 4*3, 4"5 ; length of palate 8*9, 9 - 2 ; 

 postpalatal length 9*1, 9*5 ; greatest maxillary breadth 6*8, 

 6'7 ; median depth of brain-case 4'9, 5 j length of upper 

 tooth-row 9-1, 9-4. 



Hob. Bitve, South Cameroons. Altitude 2000 feet. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 14. 7. 23. 9. Original 

 number 713. Collected by Mr. G. L. Bates on December 

 3rd, 1913. 



The smaller-sized skull, smaller teeth, and lighter ventral 

 surface distinguish this Cameroon race from both poensis 

 and soricoides. 



(59) Crocidura poensis pamela, subsp. n. 



Size about as in poensis, tail shorter, and colour con- 

 siderably duller. 



General colour of dorsal surface dull brown (" olive- 

 brown"), very thickly sprinkled with golden buff. Flanks 

 a little greyer, the brown colour gradually merging into the 

 greyish buff of the ventral surface (" neutral grey " suffused 

 with " drab "). Extremities as in poensis. Tail short and 

 appearing almost naked, sparsely clothed in very fine short 

 hairs, blackish above, pale brown below ; bristle-hairs very 

 few and inconspicuous, not spreading more thau halfway 

 down the tail. 



Skull about equal to that of poensis ; brain-case similar in 

 size, but more angular, suggesting the square-angled cranium 

 of the luna group. Teeth as in poensis. 



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



Head and body 83 mm. ; tail 35 ; hind foot 13 ; ear 8. 



Skull : condylo-incisive length 22*7 ; greatest breadth 

 lO'l ; least interorbital breadth 4*7; length of palate 9'5 ; 

 postpalatal length 9*7; greatest maxillary breadth 7; 

 median depth of brain-case 5'6 ; length of upper tooth- 

 row 10. 



Hab. Bibianaha, Gold Coast. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 11. 1. 11. 3. Original 

 number 35. Collected on December 11th, 1910, by Dr. H. 

 G. F. Spurrell and presented by him to the National 

 Collection. 



A specimen presented by F. Russell Roberts, Esq., col- 

 lected in the French Gambia, appears also to belong to this 

 form ; the colour is very like that of the type and the 

 general dimensions much the same, the tail- measurement 

 being 40 mm. 



