On new Species of African Dormice. 285 



Procavia emini latrator, subsp. n. 

 Essential characters as in true em'ni, but whereas in that 

 animal the body hairs are slaty blackish for their basal four- 

 fifths and broadly tipped with buffy, in the present form they 

 are white or whitish for their basal half, and only subter- 

 minally ringed with blackish. The tips of the hairs are 

 similarly buffy, and in general appearance the two animals 

 are exactly the same, as the white bases of the hairs do not 

 show through the dark subterminal rings. Under surface 

 dull creamy. Eyes with rather more prominent white super- 

 ciliary lines. A small whitish or buffy patch on the occiput. 

 Hairs round ears pale buffy. Dorsal patch large, loose, ill- 

 defined, some of its hairs creamy throughout, and others cream 

 terminally, blackish mesially, dull whitish basally. Limbs 

 dull buffy or pale brownish. 



Skull typically that of a Dendrohyrax. Orbits closed by 

 bone behind. Teeth small and brachyodont. 

 Dimensions of the type (in skin) : — 

 Head and body 540 mm. 



Skull (stage vi.) : basal length 92 ; greatest breadth 52 ; 

 breadth of m' 5'8. 



Hah. Batempa, Upper Sankuru River, Southern Central 

 Congo. 



Type. Female in stage vi. B.M. no. 9. 12. 12. 10. Col- 

 lected and presented by E. Torday, Esq. Three specimens. 

 The British Museum" owes to Viscount Montmorres two 

 native skins from the Stanley Forest, Upper Congo, and to 

 Dr. Cuthbert Christy one from the Mabira Forest, N.W. 

 Uganda, all of which 1 refer to Procavia emini, described by 

 me in 18S7 from a young specimen. 



In comparison with these the S. Congo specimens presented 

 by Mr. Torday are readily distinguishable by the broad white 

 bases to the dorsal hairs. In one example, however, some of 

 the hairs on the withers are dark to their bases, as in true 

 emini, and it is probable therefore that the two forms will be 

 found to grade into each other, and I therefore only distinguish 

 them subspecifically. 



XL. — Two new Species of African Dormice belonging to the 

 Genus Graphiurus. By Guy DOLLMAN, B.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Graphiurus lorraineus, sp. n. 

 A bright huffish-brown species, about the same size as 

 Graphiurus raptor, Dollm. 



