90 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



Leggada neavti, sp. n. 



A richly-coloured tawny species of the minutoides group. 



Size about as in true Cape minutoides. Fur crisp; hairs of 

 back about 4"3-4'5 mm. Colour of back mixed black and 

 tawny, the tawny becoming dominant on the sides, where it 

 contrasts sharply and abruptly with the pure white under 

 surface. Dark of back contracting on crown and between 

 eyes, the latter surrounded by a tawny area. Region below 

 and behind ears lighter tawny. 



Skull about as long as in minutoides, but more delicately 

 built, with smaller brain-case. Incisors more thrown forward 

 than in other species, their front surface terminally vertical, 

 not turned in towards the throat. Posterior nares narrowed, 

 opening nearly a millimetre further back than the front ends 

 of the parapterygoid fossa?. Masseteric knob on zygomatic 

 plate unusually small, close to the anterior edge of the plate. 



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



Head and body 58 mm. ; tail 39; hind foot 13. 



Skuli : greatest, length 19'2; basilar length 15*6 ; greatest 

 breadth 10 ; nasals 7"2 ; interorbital breadth 3*2 ; palatilar 

 length 9 - 8 ; upper molar series 3*3. 



Bab. Petauke, E. Loangwe District, N.E. Rhodesia. 

 Alt. 2400'. 



lype. Adult male. B.M. no. 7. 1. 11. 65. Original 

 number 55. Collected 28th December, 1904, by Mr. S. A. 

 Neave. 



This species differs from all others by its rich tawny colour 

 and more forwardly directed incisors. 



Leggada deserti, sp. n. 



A pale-coloured desert species, with white tail and narrowed 

 posterior nares. 



Size about as in L. bella. Fur long (hairs of back 7 mm.), 

 soft and fine, not at all spinous. General colour above 

 " pinkish buffy," darkened on the back, clear along the 

 sides edging the abruptly pure white underside. Sides of 

 face buffy, the dark area on the crown little marked. Lateral 

 line of demarcation high, above the whole of the limbs, so 

 that these from shoulders and hips downwards are completely 

 snowy white ; in other species the forearms and legs are 

 more or less of the colour of the body. Tail wholly white, 

 above and below. 



Skull about as in L. bella, except that the posterior nares 

 are almost covered over by the close approximation of the 

 bases of the pterygoids, the breadth of the opening proximally 



