926 ME. OLDFIELD TttOMAS ON MAMMALS [DeC. 14, 



The chief localities where Mr. Wh3'te collected were the Nyika 

 Plateau (about 10° 30' S., aud 33° 30' E.), the Masiiku Plateau, 

 slightly further northwards, and Port Hill (about 9° 40' S., 33° 

 20' E.), these localities all lying just to the west of the north end 

 of Lake Nyasa, and at altitudes of from four to seven thousand 

 feet. A few odd specimens were also obtained at Kai'onga and 

 Ruarwe on the lake shores. 



I have also included in the list some few additional specimens 

 from Zomba and the south end of the lake, and among others the 

 very interesting results of a trip made by Mr. Whyte to Mount 

 Malosa, just north of Mount Zomba, in November, where he 

 obtained examples of several species not previously recorded from 

 Nyasaland. 



Now that Mr. Whyte has retired from his labours in the 

 tropics, it is only fitting that in this, the last paper that will appear 

 on his Mammals, special reference should be made to the great value 

 of the services he has rendered to zoology in general, and to our 

 knowledge of mammals in particular, and to the way in which, during 

 the past six years, he has utilized the opportunities given him by 

 the generosity and public spirit of Sir Harry Johnston. 



As in previous papers, a few specimens are included which the 

 Museum owes to other members of the Nyasa Administration, 

 notably to Mr. Alfred Sharpe, and now that Mr. Sharpe has 

 succeeded to Sir Hai-ry Johnston's post, we may hope that by 

 his help our knowledge of the riches of the Nyasa Protectorate 

 will still continue to increase. 



The northern region visited by Mr. Whyte proves to have a 

 very close affinity with that explored by the Grerman travellers 

 Bohiu, Reichard, and Kaiser south and south-west of Lake 

 Tanganyika, the mammals collected by whom were worked out by 

 Dr. Noack. Thus Mr. Whyte has obtained examples of sevei-al 

 characteristic species described from their collections, notably 

 Rliynchocyon reichardi and GerhiUus bohmi, both of which are forms 

 quite new to the fauna of Nyasaland. 



The following is a list of the new species contained in the 

 present collection, those marked with an asterisk having been 

 described in a previous preliminary communication' to the 

 Society : — 



Macroscelides hrachyrhynchus malosce. 



Crocidura lixa. 



Myosorex sorella. 

 * Funisciurus lucifer, 



Graphiurus joJiJistoni. 

 *AIus nyiJcce. 

 *Saccostonius elegans. 

 *Georychus ivhytei. 

 *Thryonomys sclateri. 



' Supra, pp. 4.30-433. See " Abstract of Proceedings " for May 4tb, 1897 

 (published May 7th). 



