On neto Mammals from East Africa. 563 



of a darker brown than the four discal stripes, deflected 

 stnjiij^ly proxiinad at the pseudosutural fovese, their anterior 

 ends coufliieiit with the sublateral stripes ; extreme lateral 

 and anterior margin of prsescutum pale ; scutal lobes dark ; 

 scutellum pale basally, the caudal margin dark ; postnotum 

 with a basal dark triaug'e, the apex directed backward, 

 followed posteriorly by a pale yellow transverse stripe ; 

 caudal margin of postnotum narrowly darkened. Pleura 

 grey, conspicuously variegated with brown, this not appearing 

 as a distinct dorso-pleural stripe as in C conspicab'ilis ; a 

 conspicuous light yellow dorso-jjleural stripe passing beneath 

 the wing-root across the postnotum as described above. 

 Halteres broken. Legs with the coxce grey ; anterior coxa3 

 with two longitudinal brown lines ; mid- and hind coxre 

 with a single conspicuous brown blotch; trochanters yellow; 

 femora brownish yellow, the apices broadly dark brown ; a 

 broad, conspicuous, yellow subterminal ring ; tibia3 and 

 tarsi l)rownish yellow. Wings with a strong brownish 

 suffusion ; stigma brown ; a brown cloud at the fork of Cu 

 and at r-m ; veins brown. Venation as in the genus ; the 

 tip of i?3 bent strongly cephalad, so that cell Rs is abruptly 

 widened outwardly. 



Abdomen with the tergites dark brown, the lateral and 

 caudal margins very narrowly pale yellow. Ovipositor with 

 the valves horn-coloured. 



Hub. Fiji. 



Holotype, ? , Laba?a, Octob-r 1914 [R. Veitch). 



Ty})e in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), 



Ctenacroscelis fijiensis differs from the Australian C. con- 

 spicabilis (Skuse) in the stouter and difl'erently coloured 

 legs, the fulvous antennse, and the pale dorso-pleural stripe 

 that continues caudad across the mesonotal postnotum. 



LIV. — On some new small Mammals from East Africa. 

 By P. S. Kershaw. 



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



Elephantulus ocularis, sp. n. 

 A member of the ru/escens group, with sternal gland, 

 bicoloured short-haired tail of moderate length, and short 

 sleek fur. 



Colour of the head and back liglit fawn, between "ecru- 

 drab" and " vinaceous cinnamon" (Ridgway), similar to 



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