new Ferce from Asia and Africa. 91 



Tins is the shrew which in working out Mr. Hawker's 

 collection* I referred to C. hedenborgiana, Sand. Recently, 

 however, the Museum has obtained from Mr. A. L. Butler a 

 much larger species from Roseires, and on application to 

 Prof. Einar Lonnberg I have received such dimensions of the 

 type of hedenborgiana as to show that it is the lloseires shrew 

 which should be assigned to Sundevall's species, that from 

 Kaka being therefore still without a name. It is no doubt 

 closely allied to the Abyssinian C. doriana f, but may be 

 distinguished by its much darker colour, especially below. 



Felis servalina larseni, subsp. n. 



A form of the Servaline Cat with the shoulders and back 

 unspotted. 



General essential characters as in ordinary F. servalina, 

 but instead of the body being more or less covered with small 

 black spots, the neck, shoulders, upper arms, and median area 

 of the back are completely and absolutely without spots, as 

 in a lion or F. chaus. General colour strong glossy clay- 

 colour, an ill-defined darker band down the back. Sides, 

 belly, and terminal part of limbs spotted, but less conspicu- 

 ously so than in other forms. 



Hab. Congo district of N". Angola. Type from near 

 Bembe (about 7° S. and 14° E.). 



Type. Skin without skull. B.M. no. 13. 3. 2L 1. Col- 

 lected by Mr. Larsen, and presented by the Rev. J. Sidney 

 Bowskill, of the Baptist Missionary Society. 



Mr. Focock has formed several subspecies for different 

 forms of F. servalina, basing them chiefly on the amount of 

 spotting and banding, but this one differs from them all by 

 the complete absence of spots over the greater part of the 

 body, so that seen from above it looks almost more like a 

 unicolor than a spotted cat. The types of all Mr. Pocock's 

 forms are before me, including that of F. s. liposticta, but 

 none of them approach F. s. larseni in this respect. 



The name of the new subspecies is given at the suggestion 

 of the donor, to whom the specimens had been sent by 

 Mr. Larsen, the actual captor. 



Mustela (Lutreola) taiuana, sp. n. 



A dark insular form of the M. sibirica group. 



Size as in M. queljiartis, therefore markedly smaller than 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. p. 274 (1901). 

 t Dobs. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 564 (1887). Type locality, Let 

 Marafia, Shoa. 



