belonging to the Genus Crocidura. 359 



Matschie's species; they agree with the description very 

 closely as regards general dimensions and colour, and have 

 the second upper unicuspid rather larger than the third, 

 but otherwise the teeth are quite normal. 



Dimensions of the type (as given by Matschie) : — 

 Head and body 65 mm. ; tail 68 ; hind foot lb' ; ear 9"9. 

 Dimensions of three specimens from the Upper Congo 

 (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body. Tail. Hind foot. Ear. 



mm. mm. mm. mm. 



6 78 67 15 10-5 



6 74 (>. r > 15 10 



2 77 63 15 10-5 



Hub. Wukalala Camp, Kinyawanga, west of Semliki. 

 Type. In Berlin Museum. 



This species is distinguished from the allied forms by its 

 dark blackish-brown colour and loner dark-coloured tail. 



Group 12 (hoia). 



Size medium. Colour above pale or slaty grey washed with cinnamon 

 or brownish. Skull with anterior corners square-shaped. Second 

 and third upper unicuspids about equal in size. 



(67) Crocidura lima, Dollm. 



Crocidura luna, Dollman, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vol. v. p. 17.j 

 (1910). 



Size about as in turba, but pale smoke-grey in colour and 

 with a squarer brain-case. 



Size of body and hind foot about as in turba, tail longer. 



General colour of upper parts pale smoke-grey (" deep 

 mouse-grey," finely speckled with " snuff-brown "), rather 

 browner on the back and paler on the flanks, strikingly 

 different from the dark sepia-coloured pelage of turba. 

 Underparts slaty grey washed with silvery white ; hairs of 

 belly with slate-grey bases and white tips. Backs of hands 

 and feet thinly covered with greyish-white hairs. Tail fairly 

 long, general appearance much less hairy than in turba, 

 greyish white above and below ; caudal bristle-hairs fairly 

 numerous. 



Skull longer than xxxfumosa, as strongly built as in turba; 

 anterior angles of brain-case sharply pointed, not rounded, 

 giving the cranial region a square appearance; in size the 

 brain-case is about as in hindei, rather flat, considerably 

 more so than in turba. Teeth intermediate between those 



