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Radio-mctacarpal poucli distincf. Lower lip scarcely 

 prooveii. No guhir sac in male or female ; a well-marked 

 blackish beard in the male, covering the whole under surface 

 of the throat. Upper surface pale brown, the bases of the 

 hairs while, their tips chocolate-brown. Lips and chin 

 anterior to tiie beard pale brown. Belly white, a few hairs 

 tipjied with brown. Limbs pale brown. Upperside of 

 antebrachial, interfi-moral, and wing-membranes near the 

 body also brown, the more distal part of wing-membrane 

 whiter ; underside of all membranes white, as is the fur on 

 the membrane on each side of the body. Ears, feet, and tail 

 about as in T. melanopogon. 



Skull as in T. melanopogon^ but rather larger, and the 

 brain-case broader. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the spirit-specimen) : — 



Forearm 70 mm. (another (J G7"5, a ? 05'5). 



Head and body 83; tail 22; ear 20; third tinger, meta- 

 carpal 61, first phalanx 2r5, second phalanx 24; lower leg 

 and foot (c. u.) .37"5. 



Skull: greatest length 21"7; front of canine to back of 

 vi^ 9-2. 



Hah. Mombasa district. Typo from Rabai, TOO'; others 

 from Shimoni, sea-level. 



Type. Adult male. B.^L no. 9. G. 12. 7. Original num- 

 ber 613. Collected and presented by Dr. and Mrs. Hinde. 

 Four specimens. 



This is a most interesting species, as it represents in Africa 

 the Asiatic black-bearded T. melanopogon, not known west of 

 India proper. From this it is distinguished by its larger 

 size, the greater extension over the throat of the black beard 

 (more as in T. theobaldi) , and its broader skull. No known 

 African species are at all like it. 



I have named the species in honour of Mrs. Ilinde, who 

 has so ably assisted in her husband's East-African collecting- 

 work, and who has taken a special interest in bats. 



Crocidura nanilla, sp. n. 



Closely allied to C. nana, Dobs., of Somaliland, but even 

 smaller. (Jolour and proportions about as in that animal. 



Body slaty above, rather paler below ; chin, hands, and 

 feet white. Tail brown above, white below, smooth, finely 

 ringed, well provided with longer bristles. No lateral glanil 

 perceptible in a female. 



Skull smaller and with a shorter brain-case thim in <'. natui. 



