On Mammals from Lumbo, Mozambique. 29 



from Sarawak, which he compares with the Javan H. auran- 

 tiaca, Wat. He has overlooked H. aurata, Wat., from 

 Sarawak, the type of which is a female, whereas his form is 

 the male of the same species, differing from the female by 

 opaque red scales replacing the glistening golden scales of 

 the female upon the front of the pronotum, the sides of the 

 elytra and the legs. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. 



Fig. 1. Rhizotrogus pallenx, male and female. 

 Fig. 2. Rhizotrogus rufus, male and female. 

 Fig. 3. Empecta disparilis, male and female. 

 Fig. 4. Rhizotrogus gravis, male and female. 



The male of each on the left. All natural size. 



IV. — On a small Collection of Mammals from Lumbo, 

 Mozambique. By Oldfield Thomas. 



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



TllANKS to the generosity of Lord Swaythling, the British 

 Museum has been enabled to acquire a small collection of 

 mammals obtained during the recent East-African campaign 

 by Mr. Arthur Loveridge at Lumbo — a place on the main- 

 land opposite the island of Mozambique, in Portuguese East 

 Africa. 



This region has been exceedingly little worked, and, apart 

 from the specimens collected by Peters at Cabaceira, and 

 mentioned in his work on Mozambique, and a few brought 

 home by Dr. Kirk, almost no mammals from it have come 

 into the hands of zoologists. 



As a consequence, I have thought it worth while to give a 

 list of the species obtained by Mr. Loveridge. 



1. Crocidura hirta, Peters. 



? . 236. 



This shrew is in changing pelage, and gives a striking 

 example of the peculiar colour-changes described in Mr. Doll- 

 man's Monograph * as occurring in the species. 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xvi. p. 71 (1915). 



