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Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 4. 9. 1. 57. Original 

 number 715. Collected 22nd March, 1904, by C. H. B. 

 Grant. Presented by C. D. Rudd, Esq. Five specimens 

 examined. 



In fully adult specimens of true Cape minutoides the back 

 is sandy or fawn, only immature examples being greyish. 

 The Wakkerstroom series are all adult, and one of them quite 

 old. 



Leggada bella, sp. n. 



Allied to the true S. African L. minutoides, but smaller. 



Size small, barely larger than the little L. tenella of the 

 Soudan. Fur crisp ; hairs of back about 5-5*5 mm. in 

 length. General colour above rather warmer and more buffy 

 than in L. grata ; sides buffy, the buffy encroaching on the 

 dorsal area more than in L. grata, less than in tenella. Belly 

 pure sharply-defined white, the hairs along the lower edge of 

 the buffy becoming abruptly white to their roots. Crown 

 like back; face and cheeks scarcely lighter. Ears generally 

 without white spot at their posterior bases. Hands and feet 

 white. Tail brown above, whitish below. 



Skull small, its structure about as in L. grata. Distin- 

 guishable from that of L. minutoides by its smaller size and 

 from that of L. tenella by its normal, not elongated palate ; 

 the palation about half a millimetre behind the back of m 3 . 

 Masseteric knob on zygomatic plate nearer its front than its 

 hinder edge. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body (c.) 60 mm. ; tail 44 ; hind foot 12. 



Skull: greatest length 17*4; coudylo-basal length 16*2 ; 

 breadth across brain-case 9; nasals 6'3; interorbital width o'd; 

 palatal length 8*7 ; diastema 4*5 ; upper molar series 3'2. 



Hab. (of type). Machakos, British E. Africa. Alt. 5000'. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 1. 8. 7. 11. Original 

 number 75. Collected 21st March, 1901, and presented by 

 S. L. Hinde, Esq. 



L. bella seems to be the common white-bellied form through- 

 out Central Africa from Abyssinia and the Upper Nile south- 

 wards to the Transvaal and Zululand, specimens from many 

 localities in this large area agreeing in their size and more 

 important characters. But besides the typical E. African 

 form, I propose to recognize the following local subspecies. 

 Peters's name minimus would have been applicable to this 

 species had it not been pie-occupied. 



The S. African L. minutoides is distinctly larger. 



