belonging to the Genus Crocidura. 365 



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



Head and body 78 mm.; tail 47; hind foot 13*5; 

 ear 10. 



Skull : condylo-incisive length 23*3 ; greatest breadth 

 10"3 ; least interorbital breadth 4'8 ; length of palate 9'9; 

 postpalatal length 10*6; greatest maxillary breadth 7*2; 

 median depth of brain-case 5"9; length of upper tooth-row 

 ]0-6. 



Hab. Kamtoby, south of Lake Tanganyika. Altitude 

 4500 feet. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 9. 12. 4. 15. 



The darker colouring and larger skull and teeth readily 

 distinguish this Tanganyika shrew from the South African 

 argentata. Its near neighbour, luna, is considerably larger 

 with longer tail, and possesses a larger skull with square- 

 shaped brain-case and larger teeth. 



(74) Crocidura martensi, Dobs. 



Crocidura martensii, Dobson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. vi. p. 496 

 (1890). 



Size medium small. Fur fairly long, hairs of back 

 measuring 5-6 mm. in length. Colour above brown finely 

 speckled with grey ("light greyish olive'''' washed with 

 " Prout's brown "), the tint fading gradually on the flanks 

 into the grey of the ventral surface. Backs of hands and 

 feet brownish yellow. Tail fah'ly long and finely haired, 

 brown above, whitish below ; bristle-hairs not numerous, 

 sparingly distributed over basal two-thirds, greyish in 

 colour. 



Skull rather long and narrow, not so flattened as in 

 argentata ; third upper unicuspid rather longer in transverse 

 section than second. 



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



Head and body 75 mm.; tail 58; hind foot 13; ear 9. 



Dimensions of three Zululand specimens which appear 

 to belong to this species : — 



Head and body. Tail. Hind foot, 



mm. mm. mm. 



(3 . Zululand 80 64 15 



cJ. „ 81 60 14 



$. „ 85 59 14 



Skulls (<J and ?): condylo-incisive length 22*1, 22; 

 greatest breadth 97, 9*7 ; least interorbital breadth 4*7, 4*7 ; 



