On small Mammals from Nicaragua and Bogota. — 55 
The only question that arises in describing this very pretty 
little shrew is its relationship to C. gracilis, Blainv., said to 
come from the Cape. “hat animal, however, is evidently, 
from the accounts given of it by de Blainville, Coquerel, and 
Trouessart, a member of the group of true pygmy shrews, to 
which C. madagascariensis belongs, all of which are decidedly 
smaller than C. varilla, and have short, crisp, and uniformly 
coloured fur. In addition, C. gractlis is said to be chestnut- 
brown above (‘brun-marron’”’), and to have an incrassated 
tail, in both of which respects it differs materially from the 
animal now before us. 
Besides the type, the Museum possesses three other speci- 
mens which I refer with some doubt to this species, the doubt 
being due to their bad condition. One of them was sent by 
Verreaux from the Cape, and the other two came from the 
collection of Sir Andrew Smith, who no doubt supposed they 
belonged to his C. capensoides, a species which, as the type 
shows, is not a Pachyura, is somewhat larger, and differs in 
other details from C. varilla. 
L IX.— On small ee from Nicaragua and Bogota. 
y OLDFIELD ‘THOMAS. 
THE Museum has obtained from Dr. E. Rothschuh a few 
small mammals collected by him when at Managua, Nicar- 
agua; and one of them proving to need description as new, a 
few notes on the others may be given at the same time. 
1. Lichonycteris obscurus, gen. et sp. n. 
One specimen. 
LICHONYCTERIS *, gen. nov. 
Dentition.—I. *, C. a iP. 5 M.2 x 2—26. 
Deciduous lower incisors and an anterior deciduous upper 
premolar may be present in early life. 
Upper incisors small, not touching each other, standing 
equidistant in an even curve between the canines. Canines 
and cheek-teeth above and below very slender and delicate, 
almost as much so as in Cheronycteris; the molars narrow, 
with scarcely a trace of W-shaped cusps. 
Skull light and papery, the elevation of the crown above 
* Aeixo, L lick. The bats of the present group feed by licking out the 
contents of berries &c. with their long fringed tongues. 
