:^70 Messrs. 0. Thomas and R. C. Wrou^Iitoii on 



fuscous; second s.m. about as broad as hi^h, receiving first 

 r. n. almost at its end. Legs black, with black hair; spurs 

 clear ferruginous ; apical fimbria and hair of underside of 

 abdomen black; abdomen very feebly punctured, second 

 segment without any visibly depressed area. 



Hah. Boulder, Colorado, May 21, 1906 {Glenn Hite). 



A most unexpected tind, like nothing I have seen from 

 America, but closely allied to the European A. fulva. 



Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 

 Feb. 3, 1907. 



XLTII. — Xew Mammals from Lake Chad and the Congo, 

 mostly from the Collections made daring the Alexander^ 

 Gosling Expedition. By Oldfield Thomas and R. C. 

 Weoughton. 



It is hoped that a general account of the zoological collections 

 made during the recent Alexander-Gosling expedition from 

 Nigeria by way of Lake Chad to Shari, Oubangui, and 

 Welle to the Upper Nile will be published later, but in the 

 meanwhile such new mammals as we have been able to 

 distinguish are here described. 



Both Capt. Gosling, whose death we have to deplore, and 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander took very great interest in the collec- 

 tion of mammals, and considering the difficulties inseparable 

 from such an expedition the number and condition of the 

 specimens obtained afford striking testimony to the pains 

 they took in this direction. As a result tliey have discovered 

 a remarkable number of new and interesting forms, one of 

 these, Colomys Goslingi, representing a new genus. 



"VVe have also included descriptions of a few other mammals 

 from the same area, their characteristics having become 

 evident during the work on the Alexander-Gosling specimens. 



The whole of the collections obtained by the expedition 

 liave been presented to the National Museum by Mr. Bjyd 

 Alexander and the executors of Capt. Gosling. 



Rhynchocyon Claudi, sp. n. 



A white-tailed Rhynchocyon^ with the usual pattern 

 brightly marked ; about the size of Stuhlmanni, Mats. 



General ground-colour above a rather bright red-brown 

 (darker and less bright in the female), below a bright orange- 

 buff. A |)atch behind the ears, and the cheeks, a lighter 



