496 .Mr. G. E. Dobson on new Species o/Crociduva. 



(witliout claws) 10, pes (without claws) 17; skull, total 

 length between perpendiculars 27, occipital crest to anterior 

 extremity of premaxilla 24, greatest width of skull 11^, 

 length of upper tooth-row 13^, mandibular condyle to anterior 

 extremity of first lower incisor 19, length of lower tooth- 

 row 12^. 



IJah. Western Africa (the Gaboon). 



Type no. 5552 in the collection of the Berlin Museum. 



I name this species in memory of the late Prof. W. C. H. 

 Peters, Director of the Zoological !^^useum at Berlin. 



Crocidura Martensii. 

 About the size of C. sericeay but differing from that species 

 in the colour of the fur and in the form of the teeth. Fur 

 dark brown, with sliining extremities, on the lower surface 

 similar with greyish tips, on the whole resembling the fur of 

 G. (vqiiatorialis ; tail thinly covered with short brown hairs 

 above intermixed with long white ones, beneath whitish, with 

 very short brown hairs; ear-conch clothed with very short 

 fur, except where a few moderately long hairs spring from 

 the margin of the upper internal fold ; manus and pes clothed 

 with short pale yellow-brown fur. The lateral gland is of 

 moderate size and in the usual position. The first upper 

 incisor has a much shorter anterior cusp than in C. seric^a, 

 and the other teeth are quite differently shaped to those of 

 that species, as may be seen by comparing ' Monograph of 

 the Insectivora,' pt. iii. fasc. 1, pi. xxviii. fig. 15, with 

 pi. xxvii. fig. 5. The anterior maxillary tooth (penultimate 

 premolar) is somcAvhat larger in cross section at the base than 

 the third upper incisor, but it scarcely equals it in vertical 

 extent, its cusp considerably exceeds the anterior basal cusp 

 of the last ])remolar, its posterior margin is convex and close 

 to the last premolar. The posterior basal cusp of the first 

 incisor is rather small, and there is a small internal basal 

 process. 



Length (of an adult male specimen preserved in alcohol) : 

 liead and body 75 milliin., tail 5S, ear 9, elbow to end of 

 middle digit (without claw) 18, manus 7, pes 13, distance of 

 summit of cusp of first incisor from that of last premolar 5. 



Jlab. Ca))e of Gootl Hope. Type no. 5588, preserved in 

 the collection of the Zoological ^luseum at Berlin. 



I name this species in honour of Prof. E. vou Martens, of 

 the Berlin Museum. 



Crocidura pilosa. 



About the size of Cfmnigata or very slightly larger. The 

 body is densely clothed with ratlier long tur, daric red-brown 



