belongiinj to the Genus Crocidiir.i. ^>2V 



Skull of same specimen: condylo-iiicisive length .'51: 

 jrreatest breadth 12*'J ; least iutcrorljital breadth 5*7 ; length 

 of palate 1 t'G ; po.stj)alatal length 145; greatest maxillary 

 breadth 10 ; length of upper tooth-row 15-2. 



Had. Gaboon, West Africa. 



The only specimen in the collection which at all re- 

 sembles Lecontc's brief description is tlie one from Cette 

 Cania, Gaboon, the dimensions of which have been given 

 above. 



Tiiis large species may be distinguished from manui by its 

 browner colour, narrower skull, and less cylindrical and more 

 tapering tail. 



(4) Crocidura accident nlis, Puch. 



Pachyiira occidentalis, Pucherau, Rev. et Ma<^. Zool. p. 154 (1855) ; 



Arch. Mas. x. p. 124, pi. xii. (18(U). 

 J'ac/n/ura cFf/uatoriaiis, i'ucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool. p. 154 (1855) ; 



Arch. Mu:?. X. p. '[■27, pi. xii. (1801 ). 

 Crociduru petersi, Dobsou, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (G) vi. p. 495 (1890), 



Size fairly large, about as in nyansce, smaller than either 

 manni or odorata. 



General colour (in bleached pelage) reddish brown 

 (" Front's brown "), slightly paler on the flanks. Under- 

 ])arts dull grey washed with buft" ; new unbleached fur 

 dark sejua-])rown ("clove-brown'' mixed with "blackish 

 lu-own (1)"), much darker than in the bleached state. 

 Backs of hands and feet brownish. Tail brown above and 

 below ; caudal bristles fairly numerous. 



Pucheran's preliminary diagnosis of this species is as 

 follows: — " Suj)ra rufescens, infra dilutior ; cauda, basi 

 crassi, tertiam corporis partem tantum snperante." In 

 18G1 a fuller description appeared in the * Archives du 

 Museum/ in which the following information is given : — 

 " L'individu qui nous a servi pour etablir cette espece, est 

 roussatre sur le dcssus et les cotes de la tete, le dessus du 

 con, le dos et I'extericur des mcmbrcs. Les poils sont 

 dans toutes ces parties, (I'un cendre clair dans prcsque touie 

 leur etcndue, et roussatre ii leurs pointes. Le niuscau 

 prcscpie en cntier est noirsitre. Sur les liancs et en dessons, 

 depnis le menton jusqu'k la region anale, de meme qn'ji 

 rinterieur des mcmbrcs, le fond de conlenr, indicpie plus 

 haut, devient plus tcrne et jjIus blanchatre, par suite de 

 ratfaiblisseraent des teintcs dans h- mode de coloration 

 (In poil. . . ." It is evident from these descriptions that 

 the individnal on which occidentalis was founded was in 

 the bleached coat, and not in the new dark scpia-colourcd 



Ann. db Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol xv. '65 



