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Hob. Mount Elgon, Brit. E. Africa. Type from Elgonyi. 

 Alt. 7000'. 



Type. Immature female (Stage V.). Rudd Collection. 

 Original number 390. Collected 20th October, 1909, by R. 

 Kemp. 



The difference in general colour of this Dassie from any of 

 its allies is so conspicuous that I have no hesitation in 

 describing it from a single specimen. It h no doubt a 

 saturate mountain representative of the group. Though it is 

 in Stage V. the interparietal sutures of the type are still 

 visible, an unusual condition in this group and reminiscent of 

 the West-African P. latastei. 



Procavia pumila, sp. n. 



Allied to P. brucei, but conspicuously smaller. 

 General characters of P. brucei. Fur soft and fine; hairs 

 of back about 16-17 mm. in length. General colour above 

 grizzled greyish, rather more suffused with fawn than brucei, 

 the hairs with narrow whitish or creamy subterminal rings. 

 Dark bristle-spots apparently absent. Underfur drab-grey 

 at base, dull whitish for its middle third, and with dark ends. 

 Under surface greyish white ; the hairs drab-grey at base, 

 whitish terminally. Crown rather darker than back. Cheeks 

 grizzled grey, a whitish patch over each eye. Ears generally 

 white or whitish, but sometimes scarcely lighter than the 

 head. Hairs of dorsal spot nearly pure white, slightly bufty 

 terminally. 



Skull very much as in P. bntcei, except for its conspicu- 

 ously smaller size. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in fl :sh) : — 

 Head and body 375 mm. ; hind foot 52; ear 30. 

 Skull: basal length 65 ; condylo-basal length 69; greatest 

 breadth 40; nasals 14'5xl6'5; diastema 8'5 ; palatal 

 length 36 ; upper tooth-row from front of p 1 to back of m a 28. 

 Hub. Somaliland. Type from 50 miles S.E. of Berbera. 

 Type. Fully adult male. B.M. no. 4. 5. 9. 28. Collected 

 12th April, i904, and presented by Major H. N. Dunn, 

 R.A.M.C. 



Many years a£0 I described from Berbera, Somaliland, a 

 small form of P. brucii, P. b. somalica, and to this a con- 

 siderable number of specimens since received have been 

 referred. But I now find that nearly all these belong to a 

 still smaller form, which differs so markedly in size that it 

 should be considered as specifically distinct. Its range would 

 appear to be in Somaliland south and south-east of Berbera. 



