Description of a new Species of the Genus Crocedura in the Collection of the 
Genoa Civic Museum. By G. È. DOBSON, M. A., FR. S. 
The adult male specimen from which the following description 
was taken was forwarded to me by the Marquis G. Doria at 
whose suggestion I connect with it the name of its discoverer, 
the late Captain Bove, whose lamented death has taken place 
so recently. 
Scarcely had I finished its description when I found in the 
collection of the Berlin Museum two other specimens of the 
same species from the same zoological subregion, the measure- 
ments of which are also given below. 
Crocidura bovei, n. sp. 
Allied to C. aranea but smaller than that species from which 
it also differs in the much greater length of its tail and in its 
dental characters. The ears are very thinly clothed with short, 
almost invisible hairs, the manus and pes are covered with 
short hairs of a pale colour, and the tail is similarly covered 
and also provided with long fine hairs not concealing the scales. 
Above light brown with a greyish tinge on the surface, be- 
neath the surface colour is silvery grey slightly intermixed 
with brown, on the throat and neck with a yellowish tinge, 
the integument of the ears, feet, and under surface of the tail 
whitish, in young specimens the colour is darker throughout. 
Lateral gland moderately large, in the usual position, distinct 
in males, rudimentary or absent in females. 
The teeth differ from those of C. aranea in the much greater 
equality in size between the third upper incisor and the anterior 
maxillary tooth and in the smaller size of the posterior basal 
