376 Mr. Gr. Doll man on the African Shrews 



streak of short whitish hairs. Hands and feet dirty buff. 

 Tail more hairy than in hildegardea, caudal bristle-hairs 

 grey and numerous ; above brownish grey, dirty buff or 

 whitish below. 



Skull like a small edition of that of funiosa, brain-case 

 not quite so broad proportionally ; interorbital region thick. 

 Teeth smaller than in fumosa ; third upper unicuspid a 

 trifle broader in transverse section than second ; in the type 

 these two teeth are almost equal in size, the second being 

 triangular in section and the third a trifle longer and heart- 

 shaped. 



Dimensions of the type (taken from the dry skin) : — 



Head and body 73 mm.; tail 51 ; hind foot (moistened) 

 13. 



The dimensions of the tail and hind foot of three topo- 

 tvpes in the collection are respectively 45, 47, 48 mm. — 

 13-5, 125, 12. 



Skull of type and two topotypes : — 



5 (type). 2 (topotype). (Topotype). 



mm. mm. mm. 



Condylo-incisive length 211 207 21 



Greatest breadth 9*2 9"1 9 



Least interorhital breadth 4 4 4-5 4-5 



Length of palate 8'5 8-5 8"5 



Postpalatal length 9'6 9 8"9 



Greatest maxillary breadth 6*5 G - 6 6'5 



Median breadth of brain-case .... 6*3 5 - 2 5 - 2 



Length of upper tooth-row 9"2 9"2 9 - 4 



Hob. Ravine Station, British East Africa. 

 Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 99. 8. 4. 27. 



(89) Crocidur a jacksoni amalee, subsp. n. 



Closely allied to jacksoni, but distinguished by its darker 

 colour and the entire absence of the silvery-grey mottling so 

 conspicuous in the Ravine form. 



Size rather less, hind foot 12 mm. in length. 



Colour of dorsal surface dark brownish finely speckled 

 w r ith pale buff, the general effect as in " mummy-brown " 

 mixed with " sepia " ; flanks paler, the brownish tint passing 

 more abruptly into the light grey of the ventral surface. 

 Backs of hands and feet a shade darker than in jacksoni. 

 Tail equally hairy ; distinctly bicoloured, dark brown above, 

 white below. 



Skull rather smaller and narrower than in jacksoni ; 



