Bibliographical Notice. 209 



Dimru'^ions of the tyj)C (as pjiven by Suiulcvall) : — 



Head aiul body 90 mm. ; tail ti ; luiul foot (c. u.) 13. 



Hah. Balir el Abia<l. 



Tt seems probable that fulvaster is only a colour-phase of 

 Sundevairs sericea ; if this should be the case, the name 

 fulvnster must stand owing to page priority, sericea and 

 strauchii then being placed as synonyms o( fulvaster. 



(f) Crocidura macrodun, Dobs. 



Crocidiira macrodon, Dobson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Ilist. (G) vol. v. p. 226 

 (18iH)). 



A medium-sized species. 



Colour not described. 



Skull with long anterior incisors, third upper uiiicuspid 

 broader than second. 



Dimensions of the type (as given by Dobson) : — 



Head and body 08 mm. ; tail 10 ; hind foot 11 ; car 8*5. 



Skull : '• distance of the tip of first incisor from apex of 

 principal cusp of the last premolar 5^." 



Hab. "Sudan?'' 



Type (in spirit). No. 1908. Zoological Museum, Petro- 



It is probable that this shrew is allied to i\\e fumosa group, 

 but from the description alone it is impossible to arrive at 

 any true idea of the affinities of the species. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Manual of the New Zealand Molhisca. Atlas of Plates. By H. 

 ScrER. Published by the Authority of the Government of Now 

 Zealand. 72 Plates, with Explanations. 



When reviewing the text of this work in our number for July 1914 

 we expressed the hope that the plates, when they arrived, would 

 prove superior to the text in "get up." 



This we are now glad to be able to state is the case. Not that 

 the whole of the seventy-two plates composing tliis Atlas are of 

 equal merit — some are decidedly poor, and the figures based on 

 photographs leave much to be desired. On the other hand, the 

 reproductions of the author's own careful drawings of the Endo- 

 donts are excellent. In all cases, however — and this is tho 

 important point, — the species delineated are clearly recognizable, 

 ■which, alas I is often not the case in some quite beautifully executed 

 plates whore artistic licence has been taken witli the subjects. 



