;>72 Mr. G. Dollman on the African Shrews 



Colour (from spirit-specimen) very much the same as in 

 true fumosa, dark slate-grey washed over with sepia and 

 speckled with pale buff, browner than in raineyi. Ventral 

 surface greyer, less brown, but not very much paler than 

 upper parts. Lateral gland marked by a streak of short 

 brownish hairs. Backs of hands and feet brown. Tail as in 

 *umosa. 



Skull with broad maxillary region. Teeth all larger and 

 heavier, third upper unicuspid exceptionally large, con- 

 siderably broader than in fumosa, oval in section, and much 

 larger than the second. 



Dimensions of the type (in spirit) : — 



Head and body 86 mm. ; tail 58 ; hind foot 15 ; ear 10. 



Skull (broken) : length of palate 10 ; greatest maxillary 

 breadth 7'5 ; length of upper tooth-row 10'5 ; horizontal 

 dimensions of third upper unicuspid — length 1*3, breadth 1. 



Hub. Mabira Forest, Chagwe, Uganda. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 8. 10. 27. 3. 



The much greater size of the third upper unicuspids 

 immediately separate this form from fumosa. 



(83) Crocidur a fumosa johnstoni, subsp. n. 



Closely related to the Uganda race described above, the 

 third upper unicuspids nearly as broad, more rounded in 

 shape. 



Size rather larger than in fumosa, but not to any marked 

 extent. Fur long, hairs of back 8 mm. in length. 



Colour (from spirit-specimen) of dorsal surface dark 

 blackish brown, below rather greyer. Hands and feet as in 

 fumosa. Tail very similar, a little paler below ; bristle-hairs 

 fairly numerous. 



Skull larger than that of fumosa and more stoutly built ; 

 junction of lambdoidal and sagittal sutui'es almost as far 

 forward. Teeth all much heavier, larger than in selina, 

 excepting the second and third upper unicuspids, which are 

 rather smaller, third much larger than in fumosa. In this 

 Nyasa shrew the large upper premolar is not in contact with 

 the posterior border of the third unicuspid ; in the Uganda 

 race the two teeth just touch one another. 



Dimensions of the type (in spirit) : — 



Head and body 81 mm.; tail 56; hind foot 15*5; 

 ear 10. 



Skull : condylo-incisive length 24*7 ; greatest breadth 109 ; 

 least interorbital breadth 5 - 2; length of palate 102 ; post- 

 palatal length 11*1 ; greatest maxillary breadth 7"8 ; median 



