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Teeth not specially small, the unicuspids well overlapping, the 

 posterior ones notched behind. 



Dimensions of the type ^measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 60 mm.; tail 40; hind foot 11. 



Skull: condylo-incisive length 17'7; greatest breadth 

 7'7 ; upper molar series 7*6 ; i^ to p^ 3*7. 



Hah. (of type). " Small uninhabited island one mile north 

 of Sajitu Island, Victoria Nyanza." Another specimen from 

 Kama Island. 



Type. Female. B.M. no. 2. 7. 5. 6. Collected 29 De- 

 cember, 1901, and presented by R. J. Cuninghame, Esq. 



This little shrew, which Mr. Cuninghame found on two 

 islets in the Victoria Nyanza, is the smallest yet described 

 from East Africa ; but it is possible that allies of the still 

 smaller species C. nana, Dobs., and C. Bottegi, Thos., will 

 prove to occur there, even if there are no representatives of 

 the pigmy shrews of the G. madagascariensis group. 



BIBLIOGUAPHICAL NOTICES. 



A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera. A Texthooh for 

 Students and Collectors. By J, W. Tuxt, F.E.S. Vol. IV. With 

 Synopsis of Contents of, and General Index to. Vols. I.-IV. 

 Sonnenscheia : April, 1904. Pp. xvii, 535. Portrait and 

 pis. i., ii. 



Akothek two years have passed since the publication of vol. iii. of 

 Mr. Tutt's magnum opus, and we have again the pleasure of calling 

 the attention of entomologists to the appearance of a fresh volume 

 of the series. Five species of Sphingides were discussed in the latter 

 part of vol. iii., and vol. iv. is devoted entirely to the twelve 

 remaining species, supplementary notes, and a Catalogue of Palse- 

 arctic Sphingides. The Preface deals chiefly with questions of 

 nomenclature, into which we cannot here enter ; but we may note 

 that, except as regards the two species of Hemaris, Mr. Tutt makes 

 every one of our British species the type of a distinct genus ; and in 

 most cases he is certainly justified in this, though it was naturally 

 unnecessary so long as little or nothing was known of the allied 

 foreign species. But we do not see why Mr. Tutt should ignore 

 Scopoli's genus Macroglossum (only quoting Ochsenheimer's late 

 form, Macroglossa) and give stellatarum as the type oi Sesia, Fabr., 

 from which, we hold, Scopoli's action practically removed it. We 

 cannot follow his reasoning in vol. iii. p. 344 and note. The long 

 account of the habits of this well-known species (the Humming- 

 bird Hawk -Moth) in vol. iv. is very interesting. Much information 

 is also given about the hybrids between Celerio gallii and Hyles 

 euphorbice (we do not, however, see why the laps. cal. of gallii for 

 gain need be retained). 



