^^a new African Mammals, 'Mo 



XLIX. — yew Af'rirnn Mummah. 



lly Oldfield Thomas. 



(PiiblisIuHl liy permission of the Trustees of the IJriti.^li .Mu-;eum.') 



Croeidura hutleri, sp. n. 



A iiic'iliuni-siicccl species, with a shorty white, incrassated 

 tail. 



Fur soft and fine; hairs of back rather less than 4 mm. in 

 length. General colour above near " drab-:i:re3^," the usual 

 fjrey of the upj)er surface with a certain suffusion of " ^cru 

 drub.'' Under surface soiled buffy, the hairs brownish slaty 

 for three-fourths their lenoth, their tips cream-bufF, which 

 gives a rather unusual yellowish appearance to the whole 

 underside ; no line of demarcation on sides. Lateral gland 

 prominent, short-liaired, cream-buff. Hands and feet white. 

 Tail short, very much iiicrassated throughout, its hairs, both 

 shorter and longer, white or with a slight buffy tinge. 



Skull of nearly the same length as that of specimens from 

 tlie same place referred by Mr. Wrougiiton to C. sen'cea, 

 Sund., but the brain-case is markedly shorter. Second and 

 third unicuspids subequal in area, the former the higlier of 

 the two. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the skin) : — 



Head and body 78 mm.; tail 34; hind foot 13. 



ykuU : condylo-incisive length 24; anterior breadth 7 6 ; 

 posterior breadth 9"9 ; interorbital breadth 4'5 ; upper tooth- 

 row 10'5 ; tip of postglenoid process to hinder end of 

 condyle 9'4*. 



JJab. Between Chak Chak and Dem Zubeir, Bahr-el- 

 Ghazal. 



Ti/pe. Adult male. B.M. no. 8. 4. 2. 10. Original num- 

 ber 33. Collected 7th March, 1907, and presented by A. L. 

 Butler, Esq. 



This striking little shrew, which 1 have named in honour 

 of its discoverer, is readily recognizable by its short, whitisii, 

 incrassated tail and its more or less buffy underside. 



Tatera hophinsoni, sp. n. 



A rather small species, with unusually short broad h^t. 

 Size decidedly less than in the other Gambian species, 



* This measurement, easily taken with exactitude, gives an idea of the 

 length of the brain-case. The direct measurement on the upper surface 

 is less easy to take accurately. 



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