belonging to the Genus Crocidura. 507 



Colour of dorsal surface seal-brown, merging gradually 

 on the sides into the greyer underparts. In the Museum 

 Collection there is a specimen from Toro which may be 

 accepted as representing this species ; the new unbleached 

 fur is dark seal-brown as described by Heller — patches of the 

 old worn coat, still retained by this individual, are much 

 redder in tint, about as in " Promt's brown." Backs of hands 

 and feet dark brownish. Tail dark sepia-brown, a trifle 

 paler below ; caudal bristle-hairs numerous. 



Skull rather narrower than that of hildegardea, the Toro 

 specimen with rather a higher brain -case than in the Fort 

 Hall species, in shape more as in jacksoni. Teeth rather 

 heavier, second upper uuicuspid a trifle smaller than third. 



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



Head and body 82 mm.; tail 52; hind foot 12*5 

 (measured dry) . 



Skull : greatest breadth 3'7 ; length of tooth-row 8'5. 



Skull-dimensions of Toro specimen : condylo-incisive 

 length 18*7 ; greatest breadth 8 ; least interorbital breadth 4 ; 

 length of palate 7'6 ; postpalatal length 8*5 ; greatest 

 maxillary breadth 6 ; length of upper tooth-row 8'1. 



Hub. Kabula Muliro. 



Type. Adult male. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 184639. 



(95) Crocidura hildegardece, Thos. 



Crocidura hildeqardece, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. xiv. 

 p. 240 (1904). 



Size rather smaller than in jacksoni, about as in gracilipes, 

 skull with fiat brain-case and the second and third upper 

 unicuspids about equal in size. 



Hind foot small, about 12'5 mm. in length. 



Colour above dull cinnamon-brown very finely speckled 

 with buff, general effect as in "mummy-brown" mixed with 

 " Prout's brown," very different from the dull brown and 

 silver-grey mottling of jacksoni, and considerably brighter 

 than in gracilipes. Flanks rather greyer than back, the 

 brown tint, in the new pelage, merging rather abruptly into 

 the lighter grey of the belly ; in the more worn pelage, 

 where the ventral surface is rather browner, the differentia- 

 tion between the two areas is less distinct. Belly greyish. 

 Lateral glands small, as in gracilipes. Backs of hands and 

 feet dirty white or brownish. Tail slender and cylindrical, 

 very finely haired, considerably more naked in appearance 

 than in jacksoni, more as in gracilipes, upper surface brown. 



