1H8 I^Ti. G. Dollinan on the African Shrews 



digits'*^. Tail considerably longer than tliat of /wia, dark 

 blackish l)ro\vn abovCj below a shade lighter ; caudal bristles 

 not so numerous. 



The skull is unfortunately badly broken, the brain-case 

 being entirely destroyed ; teeth heavier than in turba, third 

 upper unicuspid broader and more circular in section, last 

 upper molar larger. 



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



Head and body 94 mm. ; tail G3*5 ; hind foot 17 ; 

 ear 10. 



Skull : least interorbital breadth 5 ; length of jialate lO'l ; 

 greatest maxillary breadth 7"2 ; length of upper tooth-row 

 10-6. 



Hab. Chilui Island, Lake Bangweolo. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 9. 12. 4. 21. Original num- 

 ber 142. Collected by S. A. Neave, Esq. 



This shrew^ Mas found by Mr. Neave on the same island 

 upon which he obtained the type of turba ; the great 

 difference in the size of the hind feet and the length of the 

 tail clearly show that these two specimens cannot represent 

 the same species, and it thus becomes necessary to bestow 

 a specific name upon the larger specimen. In general pro- 

 portions of body and tail this shrew miglit easily be confused 

 "with some of the British East African forms of tarba. 



(55) Crocidura ansorger^ sp. n. 



Intermediate between the turba and poensis groups. 



Size slightly larger than in turba, about equal to zena or 

 soricoides. Fur as in turba. 



Colour above considerably paler and greyer than in either 

 tnrba or poensis, about like " olive-brown " mixed with 

 '• mummy-brown " ; flanks a trifle lighter, the brownish tint 

 gradually fading and merging imperceptibly into the dull 

 greyish brown (" deep neutral grey " washed with " light 

 dralj ") of the ventral surface ; hairs of belly slate-grey with 

 pale brownish tips. Backs of hands and feet brownish 

 ■white. Tail long, more finely haired than in turba, more as 

 in soricoides, slate-bjown above, paler below ; bristle-hairs 

 slender and fairly numerous on the basal half, but not nearly 

 80 conspicuous as in turba. 



Skull a trifle smaller and narrower than that of soricoides, 

 shape of brain-case more as in turba, but muzzle rather 

 blunter. Teeth like those of the Bangweolo species, second 

 and third upper unieuspids a trifle broader and shorter. 



* This feature, although present in some of the races of turba, is never 

 80 conspicuous as in zeiia. 



