belonging to the Genus Crocidura. 



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This species would appear to Lave a very wide distribu- 

 tion ; in the ^Museum Collection are specimens from the 

 following localities : — Tette, Salisbury, Mazoe, S. Nyasa, 

 Loangwa, Katanga, and Angola. 



(28) Crocidura hirta flavidula, Thos. & Schw. 



Crocidura fiavescens Jlavidula, Thomas & Scbwaun, P. Z. S. p. 264 

 (1905). 



In dimensions agreeing closely with hirta. 



Colour above (in worn pelage) more uniform than in the 

 Tette species, the grey speckling not so dominant, general 

 colour of back " Prout's brown " mixed with " cinnamon- 

 brown." Flanks, ventral surface, extremities, and tail as in 

 hirta. 



Skull rather larger than in the specimens described by 

 Peters. 



Dimensions of the type and four topotvpes (measured in 

 the flesh) :— 



Skull of type and two topotypes : — 



J (type). S. 2- 



mm. mm. mm. 



Condylo-incisive length 23-5 28 23 



Greatest breadth 10 9-8 9-6 



Least interorbital breadth 4'6 4"6 4*7 



Length of palate 9-8 9-4 97 



Postpalatal length 10-6 lO'l 10 



Greatest maxillary breadth 7'4 7"3 7'2 



Length of upper tooth-row 98 lO'l 10 



Hah. Umvolosi, Zululand. 



Type. Adult male, B.M. no. 4. 12. 3. 29. 



This Zululand shrew would appear to be very closely 

 related to the Tette species, and it seems best to regard it as 

 a race of that form rather than of the much larger and very 

 much more (\.\'s,tmci flavescens. 



