On Mammals from Northern Rhodesia. JJi) 



The type is rather teneral. Macromastix harrisi is dedi- 

 cated to the collector, Mr. T. M. Harris, to whom 1 am 

 greatly indebted for many fine Tipulidai from New Zealand. 

 It is allied to M. atridorsum^ Alexander, bnt differs from 

 this species, as well as all others so fur described, by the 

 position of the i)asal deflection of Cmj, which is basad of the 

 fork of ^1/ as in the yenus Nephrutoma. 



VI. — On a Collection of Mammals obtained bi/ Capt. O. C. 

 Shortridf/e in jYorthern lihodisia, with Field-notes hy the 

 Collector. 13y P. !S. Keksiiaw. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The following is a list of the small mammals obtained by 

 Capt. G. C. Shortiidge in 1919 and 1920 in Noithern 

 Rhodesia. Tlie bulk of the collection was secured during the 

 construction of the aerodrome at N'dola, near the Belgian 

 Congo fiontier, at 12° 50' S., 28° 40' E. The remainder, 

 with one or two exceptions, came from Monze, 200 miles 

 south of N'dola. Many specimens of the genera Naailio, 

 Crocidxira, Taterona, Steatomys, SaccostomuSy Acomt/s, Ley- 

 f/ada, Zelotomr/s, and Cricetoinys were captured during the 

 Itivelling of the numerous large ant-hills on the aerodronie. 



Three new species from this collection have already been 

 described by Hinton *. These were Mimetilliis thojnasi, 

 Kerivoida lueia, and Zelotomys shortridgei. On a further 

 examination of the material it has been found necessary to 

 give names to the following forms: — Crocidura katharina, 

 Ilelogale brunnula rnficepsy and Taterona lobengulte ndolce. 



This opportunity has been taken to describe a new form of 

 Acomys — viz., A. sabryi — from Helouan, near Cairo, the 

 type and other specimens of which have been kindly presented 

 to the British Museum b}- the Giza Zoological Museum. 



There is also a|)pended a list of the Ungulates obtained in 

 various localities in Northern Rhodesia, and presented to the 

 British Museum by Mr. D. Gordon Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Gordon Read, Mr. E. R. D. Hall, Capt. G. C. Shortridge, 

 Mr. H. Wainwright, and Dr. J. Harmer, donations which 1 

 liave nmch pleasure, on behalf of the Trustees, in acknow- 

 ledging. 



• Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vi. p. 239 (1920). 



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