0)1 new Mammals from tJie Joliore Archipelago. 589 



External dimensions as recorded by collector : — 



Head and body 53^ mm.; tail 361; hind foot 98; ear 33. 



Skull: condylo-basal length 101 ; zygomatic breadth 53'5 

 iuterorbital breadth 20*5 ; intertemporal breadth 17*5 

 palatal length 55 ; breadth between outer sides of p^ 33 

 length of bullte ]9; breadth between outer surfaces of bullae 

 38'5. Length of p' on outer edge 9*8. 



Hah. Niaji, 20 miles N.E. of Oban, Southern Nigeria. 

 Another specimen without skull from Oban. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 10.6.1.11. Original 

 number 20. Collected 17th October, 1909, by P. A. Talbat, 

 Esq. 



The Museum now possesses six skulls of M. naso from 

 difEerent localities in the Cameroons, and these are so 

 uniformly larger than Mr. Talbot's specimen that I only 

 hesitate as to whether the latter ouglit not to be referred to a 

 different species. The difference in the size and lateral 

 extension of the bullse is especially noticeable. 



LXIX. — On new Mammals from the Islands of tlie Johore 

 Archipelago, South China Sea. By Heebert 0. RoBlNSON, 

 C.M.Z.S. 



Crocidura klossii, nom. nov. 



Crocidura major, Kloss (Wagler), Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii. 

 p. 117 (1911) ; id. Journ, Fed. Malay States Mus, iv. pp. 194, 195 

 (1911). 



Mr. G. S. Miller has pointed out to me that Mr. Kloss's 

 name for this shrew from Great Redang Island is antedated 

 by Crocidura major,^a^\Qr, Isis, p. 1218 (1832), a synonym 

 of Crocidura russula, and I therefore substitute the above 

 name for it. 



Crocidura aoris, sp. n. 



Ti/j^e. — Adult female (skin and skull), No. 166/12, 

 Selaiigor Museum, collected at Batu Berhala, Pulau Aor, 

 Johore Archipelago, South China Sea, 13th June, 1912, b}^ 

 H. C. Robinson and E. Seimund. Original no. 4859. 



Characters. — A large member of the subgenus Crocidura, 

 slightly larger than C. klossi, but very distinctly paler above 

 and with a marked liver-brown coloration on the breast and 

 anterior portion of the abdomen. 



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