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white, the hairs slaty for their basal two thirds, white ter- 

 minally. Outer side of limbs like sides, inner side like belly ; 

 hands' white from wrists; ankles inconspicuously brown, 

 upperside of feet white ; filth toe reaching to the end of the 

 second phalanx of the fourth. Tail long, slender, thinly and 

 fairly haired, scarcely pencilled at end, uniformly pale brown ; 

 rings of scales very fine, about sixteen or seventeen to the 

 centimetre. Mammae 1 — 2 = 6. 



Skull low and broad, with a large brain-case and small 

 muzzle ; supraorbital edges square, but not markedly beaded, 

 the faint ridges disappearing halfway across the parietals ; 

 palatal foramina not very widely open, reaching back to the 

 level of the front of to 1 ; palate ending squarely just behind 

 ni 6 ; bullae small. 



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



Head and body 96 mm. ; tail 146 ; hind foot 20 ; ear 16. 



Skull : greatest length 26 ; basilar length 20 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 12-5; nasals 9 ; interorbital breadth 4"5; breadth of 

 brain-case 11'2 ; height of brain-case 7'5; palate length 11 ; 

 diastema 6*6 ; palatal foramina 4- 7 ; length of upper molar 

 series 4*0. 



Ilab. Pungo Andongo. Alt. 1200 m. 



Type. Old female. B.M. no. 4. 4. 9. 74. Original num- 

 ber 65. Collected 20th June, 1903. 



Even apart from the number of its mammae this pretty 

 mouse is readily distinguishable from Mm AUeni, the only 

 species with which it could be compared, by its much paler 

 colour and its wholly white feet. 



40. Lophuromys sikapusi, Temm. 

 $ . 162. Braganza. 



41. Dendromys sp. 



<J . 213. Golungo Alto. 



A striped species whose identity with the southern D. meso- 

 melas and melanotis I am at present unable either to affirm or 

 deny. 



42. Steatomys Bocagei, Thos. 

 (J. 133, 135, 137, 164, 165 ; ? . 132, 155. Braganza. 



43. Georychus Mechoivi, Peters. 

 <?. 152, 153, 170, 178; ? . 169. Braganza. 



