116 On new Mam mah from Mount Ruicenzori. 



crisp, about 5"5 mm. in length on the back, profusely mixe<l 

 with fine spines. General colour above tlark coppery brown 

 (nearest to *' bistre"), more blackish on the rump ; the light 

 rings on the hairs dark buffy. Under surface strongly con- 

 trasted rich buffy ochraceous, the bidden bases of the hairs 

 slaty grey. Head rather darker than back. Ears naked, 

 uniformly blackish. Outer side of limbs brown like sides, 

 inner sides buffy like belly ; upper surface of liands and feet 

 brown, with a tinge of buffy. Tail fin ly scaled (20 rings to 

 the centimetre), practically naked, blackish throughout, or 

 rather lighter below proximally. 



Skull stoutly built, with broad, squarely edged but not 

 ridged, interorbital region. Palatal foramina long, extending 

 nearly to the level of the middle of m}. First upper molar 

 with its anterior lobe less developed than in the smaller forms. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 70 mm.; tail 68; hind foot 16; ear 13. 



Skull: greatest length 22; basilar length 17; greatest 

 breadth 11; interorbital breadth 4; palatilar length 9"6; 

 palatal foramina 5*1 ; length of upper molar series 3"J:. 



Hah. Euwenzori East, 6000'. 



Tijpe. Old female. B.M. no. 6. 7. 1. 116. Original num- 

 ber 215. Collected 2nd January, 1906, by Douglas 

 Carruthers. Six specimens. 



This species is related to L. musciJoides, Temm., but may 

 be readily recognized by its rich buffy under surface. 



14. Lophuromys Woosnami^ sp. n. 



An olive-grey species with large ears and long tail. 



Size about as in L. aquilus. Fur straight ; hairs of back 

 about 10-11 mm. in length. General colour above between 

 "olive" and "bistre," without the warmer rufous tone 

 generally present in the East-African forms ; the bases of 

 the hairs are, however, of a rufous-brown colour. Mixed 

 with the ordinary hairs of the back there are a vari:ible 

 number of buffy-white hairs, which produce a speckling 

 somewhat similar to that of the grysbuck {Xototragus mela- 

 notis), but are almost absent in some spi'cimens. Sides 

 rather paler than back. Colour of under surface not sharply 

 defined laterally, very variable, ranging from near wood- 

 brown to tawny claj^-colour ; the throat rather whiter. Head 

 like back ; area round eyes nearly black. Ears very large, 

 finely haired, black, with whitish edges. Upper surface of 

 hands and feet pale brownish white. Tail long, slender, 

 almost naked, markedly less hairy than in the other species ; 

 blackish above, whitish flesh-colour below. 



