helon<ji)ig to the Genus Crocidiirn. 205 



build, broad with blunt muzzle. Teeth slijjhtly smaller ; 

 sc(;()nd unicuspid con8J)icuou^^ly sniall'>r than and overlapped 

 by third, circular in seetion with well-developed eingula. 



Dimensions of tlie type (measured in the tiesli) : — 



Head and body 90 mni. ; tail (VZ ; hind foot IG ; ear 13. 



Skull : eondylo-mcisive length 22"9 ; greatest breadth 

 10'2 ; least interorbital breadth 5*3 ; length of palate 9'3; 

 postpalatal length 10 ; greatest maxillary breadth G"8 ; 

 leiiirth of U[)i)er tooth-row 10*2. 



Hub. Jombeni Range, Nyeri District, British East Africa. 

 Altitude 5000 feet. 



7y/>e. Adult. B.M. no. 12. 7. 1. GO. Original number 

 8G8. Collected and presented by A. Blayney Percival, Esq. 



This Jombeni form may be distinguished at once from 

 monax by the great difference in size between the second 

 and third upper unieuspids, the third being very much 

 larger and considerably overlapping the second, while in 

 mouax the third unicuspid is only slightly larger than the 

 second. 



(124) Crocidura neavei, Wrought. 



Croculiira neavei, Wrougbton, Manchester Memoirs, vol. li. no. 5, p. 7 

 (19U7). 



In size rather larger than maurisca, but much blacker in 

 colour and possessing a flatter skull with rather broader 

 teeth. 



Size of body and hind foot a little larger than in 

 i7iaurisca. 



General colour very dark seal-brown (dark " fuscous 

 black" finely speckled with "cinnamon-brown'^), fading 

 gradually on the flanks into the brownish grey of the ventral 

 surface. Backs of hands and feet brownish ; fore claws 

 rather smaller than hind. Tail long and clothed with short 

 blackish hairs above and below, general appearance as naked 

 as in the foregoing species; long caudal bristles only present 

 on the basal portion. 



Skull about equal in size to that of maurisca, with flatter 

 brain-case ; maxillary region more expanded, muzzle not 

 tapering so markedly. Tooth-row equal in size to that of 

 maurisca, second and third upper unieuspids rather broader, 

 but not so broad as in dolichura; einguia well developed. 



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

 Head and body 78 mm. ; tail 60; hind foot 16; ear 9. 



Skull: condylo-incisive length 20'7; greatest breadth 

 8-8; least interorbital breadth t-7 : length of palate 8-2 ; 



