belonging to the Genus Crocidura. 



369 



Size of body rather small, between 73 and S4: mm. in 

 length. 



General colour of dorsal surface dark smoky brown 

 (between "fuscous" and " sepia ^') mottled all over with 

 greyish buff ; the colour varies slightly according to the 

 pelage, the type and topotypes in the Collection are evidently 

 in the more bleached pelage, the colour being rather redder 

 than in a series from the Aberdare Mountains, in which the 

 speciniens are all rather less red. Ventral surface a little 

 paler, hairs dark slate-grey, with greyish-brown or vandyke- 

 brown tips. Lateral gland small and usually inconspicuous. 

 Flanks as dark as back, the colour gradually merging into 

 the dark greyish-bro.vn tint of the belly. Backs of hands 

 and feet brownish or dirty white. Tail rather long, cylin- 

 drical, well provided with bristle-hairs ; dark brown above, a 

 shade lighter below. 



Skull very delicately built, the general appearance much 

 less solid than is usually the case in species of this size, 

 rather short and with broad, flat, smooth brain-case, the 

 greatest breadth of which is formed by a lateral angular 

 expansion of its sides. In turba the sides of the brain-case 

 do not present this angular expansion. Sagittal and 

 larabdoidal sutui'es never forming any marked crests, their 

 median junction more anterior than in turba. Maxillary 

 region narrow, palate rather short. Teeth small, second 

 up})er unicuspid considerably smaller than third and slightly 

 overlapped by it. 



Dimensions of type, topotypes, and specimens from other 

 localities : — 



Head and body. Tail, 



cj (type). Kenya 82 



cf . Kenya 80 



„ 90 



Mt. Elgon 76 



, 76 



„ 77 



72 



„ . 73 



Jombeni Eange .... 82 



Aberdare Mts 84 



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