566 ^Iv. P. 8. Kerslmw on new 



dark face-markinpjs, and in the length of tlie posterior palatal 

 foramina, but differs in lacking; the reddish body tint with 

 black washing o£ vicina, and in possessing small bullre. 

 With T. lohengulce it agrees in body-colourinor, but differs in 

 tail and face-markino-s and in the length of tlie posterior 

 palatal foramina, which in lobengulce, as in all the southern 

 iVirmSj are very short. 



Talerona iahorw, sp. n. 



A grey Taferona, with less ochraceous colour than in any 

 species hitherto described. Tail equal in length to head and 

 body, and untufted. Bulhe large. 



General colour of back mouse-grey, tinged with buff. 

 Sides clay-colour. Colour of head no darker than back. 

 Hairs of under surface with slaty bases as in liodon, except 

 in the sacral region, where they are white throughout. This 

 slaty colour is strongly marked, and gives a dirty greyish- 

 white appearance to the under surface, very different from the 

 pure shining white of most species of Taterona. Hands and 

 feet white. Tail greyish brown above, white below, untufted, 

 and with no black hairs. The average length of the tail in 

 six specimens examined is exactly equal to the length of the 

 head and body. 



Measurements of the type (taken in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 140 mm. ; tail 130 ; bind foot 32 ; 

 ear 21. 



Skull: greatest length 39 mm.; condylo-ineisive 36-5; 

 basilar 31'5 ; condylo-basilar 34; palatilar 18*2; anterior 

 palatal foramina 7*2 ; posterior 1*0 ; space between anterior 

 and posterior palatal foramina 5"0 ; interorbital breadth 7*0 j 

 bulLne 12-0 ; upper molar series 7*0. 



Dorsal aspect of skull convex, not flattened. Groove of 

 incisors well marked. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 21. 9. 5. 14. Original number 

 585. Collected by Mr. A. Loveridge on 10th December, 1918, 

 and presented to the British JMuseum by Lord Swaythling. 



Tyije-locality , Tabora, 5° S., 32° 40' E., in the Tanganyika 

 Colon3\ 



The predominance of grey colouring both above and behnv 

 in itself separates T. tahorce from all other species of the 

 genus. 2\ liodon, which shares with T. tahorce the distinc- 

 tion — rare in this genus — of having slaly bases to the hairs 

 of the under surface, is at once distinguished by the slight 

 almost imperceptible grooving of the incisors. 



