A new Spint/ Mouse /rsin Soinaliland. 259 



evenly dislrlbuted over tlie wliole dorsal surface. Backs of 

 hands aTid feet brownish ; toes clothed with whitish hairs. 

 Ventral surface of body dirty white. Tail with terminal 

 half white, in this respect agreein<f with C. g. dichrurus. 



Skull like that of dichrurus but rather larger. Posterior 

 emargination of palate well marked. Auditory bullae fairly 

 large. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 330 mm. ; tail 373 ; hind foot 65 ; 

 ear 40. 



Skull : greatest length 67 ; basilar length 55 ; condylo- 

 incisive length 63; zygomatic breadth 33*5; occipital 

 breadth 25; length of nasals 26; palatilar length 33*4; 

 length of palatal foramina 5'5; alveolar lengtli of upper 

 molar series. 



Hah. Fika, Bornu, Northern Nigeria. Altitude 1100 feet. 



Ttjpe. Adult male. B.M. no. 11. 5. 12. 9. Original 

 number 35. Collected by P. A. Talbot, Esq., on jMarch ord, 

 1911. 



Three specimens of tliis new Cricetomys were collected by 

 Mr. Talbot, and, together with several other mammals, pre- 

 sented by him to the British Museum. The collection was 

 obtained during the journey which Mr. Talbot recently made 

 across Nigeria, in company with Miss Olive MacLeod, and 

 it is after Miss MacLeod that the novelty of the collection is 

 named. 



XXX. — A new Spiny Mouse from SonmJiland. 

 By Guy DolLxMan. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the Bi-itisli Museum.) 

 Acnnys brockmani, sp. n. 



Allied to Acomys mullah, Tlios., but very much paler in 

 colour and rather smaller in size. 



Size and proportions rather less than in A. mullah. 

 General colour of back pale yellowish brown, washed with a 

 light rufous tint, the general effect about as represented in 

 snuff-brown no. 1 washed with yellowish salmon no. 1 

 ('Repertoire de Couleurs '). Middle of back, in posterior 

 region, slightly darker than rest of dorsal surface, due to the 

 brown tips of the spines being rather richer in colour, but 

 not approaching the dark brownish coloration met with in 

 A. mullah. Face, head, and shoulders paler and less rufous 



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