54 On Five new African Shrews. 
longer bristles fairly numerous, evenly scattered throughout 
except at the extreme tip. Lateral gland well developed. 
Anterior upper incisors small and delicate. Second and 
third unicuspids subequal, their tips about level with the basal 
cusp of P: 4. 4. 
Dimensions of the type (an adult male, in spirit) :— 
Head and body 60 millim.; tail 51; hind foot 12; fore- 
arm and hand 16:7. 
Skull: basal length 17; greatest length (including incisors) 
19-1; greatest breadth 8-2; interorbital breadth 3°7 ; palate 
length 8:2, breadth 5-4; tip of +3 to tip of B* 425 =), 
horizontal length 1°6, height 2:1. 
Hab. Asaba, 150 miles up the River Niger. 
Typ:: B.M.95.5.3.4. Presented and collected by Dr. W.H. 
Crosse. 
With this species, which seems to be smaller than any of 
the ordinary grey-coloured shrews as yet described from West 
Africa, Dr. Crosse obtained specimens apparently referable to 
C. Manni, Pet., and C. soricoides, Murray, of the latter of 
which the Museum possesses the type, and of the former two 
topotypes. 
Crocidura (Pachyura) varilla, sp. n. 
Size very small, but not so minute as in the C. madagas- 
cartensis group. Fur soft, not crisp, fairly long, the hairs of 
the back 4—5 millim. long. General colour finely variegated 
grey, almost exactly similar to that of M/yosorex varius; the 
hairs slaty grey for two thirds their length, the subterminal 
sixth whitish and the tips brown. Under surface paler grey, 
the tips of the hairs white. Ears of normal development, 
projecting but little beyond the fur; almost naked. Upper 
surface of hands and feet white. ‘Tail about equal in length 
to the body without the head; cylindrical, not thickened at 
base, well-haired, the longer bristles particularly numerous, 
pale brown above, white below, the bristles all white. Lateral 
gland small but distinct (male). 
Third upper unicuspid slightly higher vertically than the 
second. Tl ourth of fair size, clearly visible externally. 
Dimensions of the type (an adult male, in spirit) :— 
Head and body 52 millim.; tail 82; hind foot 9:1; fore- 
arm and hand 14:2. 
Skull: extreme length (c.) 17:4; tip of ! to tip of P-4 3°7, 
Hab. East London, British Caftraria. Presented by 
Lieut. H. Trevelyan. 
Type: B.M, 78,1.22.1. 
