1897.] FEOM NYASALAND. 929 



Northern Nyasalaud, there are three examples decidedly different 

 in colour from Moatit Malosa, just to the north of Zamba, a 

 locality where Mr. Whyte states that a great many peculiar forms 

 are found. 



Size and general characters as in ordinary Zambesi examples of 

 M. hrachyrhijnclius, but the upper colour, instead of being pale 

 rufous, is, in ordinary lights, grizzled greyish or mouse-colour, not 

 far from the "haii'-brown"of Ridgway. Looked at with the light 

 behind one, and with the animal's head pointing almost directly 

 away (a position which turns the pale rufous of M. bracJiyrhi/ncJius 

 into a silvery lilac), the colour turns nearly a pure ashy grey. 

 Sides buffy, belly white. On the rump the hairs surrounding the 

 naked area at the root of the tail are pale rufous, exiictly as in 

 M. brachi/rhi/nchiis, but owing to the difference in the dorsal colour 

 they present a marlved contrast to the rest, so that the rump is 

 conspicuously different to the hack. Face, like back, greyer than 

 in 31. hrachyrhynchus ; the whitish ring round the eye is slightly 

 interrupted in the centre above, and broadly so at the posterior 

 canthus, where a blackish streak or smear is formed, naming 

 backwards from the eye ; the hairs in the same position in M. hrachij- 

 r^hi/nchus are not darker than the rest of the face. 



Skull apparently not markedly different from that of M. brachi/- 

 rJujnchus, allowing for the range of variation found in that 

 animal. It is, perhaps, rather narrower across the brain-case, the 

 nasals are slightly broader for their middle third, and the teeth, 

 especially the premolars, seem to average rather smaller. 



Measurements of the type, an adult $ in skin : — 



Head and body (stretched) 144 mm.; tail 103; hind foot 29; 

 ear 17*5. 



Skull : basal length 29*8 ; greatest length 34 ; greatest breadth 

 17'4; interorbital breadth 5"6; breadth of brain-case 13-4; front 

 of i.^ to back of last molar (m.^) 16-5. 



Hab. Mount Malosa, 5500 ft. Coll. 22 Nov., 1896. 



Type. B.M. No. 97. 10. 1. 41. 



In his report ou one of these specimens sent to him for ex- 

 amination, Dr. Matschie tells me that the four Tette Macroscelides 

 examples in the Berlin Museum are very variable in colour, 

 ranging from the ordinary rufous of M. brcu-liyrJiynclms to a much 

 darker shade, aud it is owing to this fact that I now consider the 

 Malosa form as merely a subspecies. The type of M. fuscus, as 

 already noted, is a melanistic example, still in milk-dentition, of 

 the ordinary Zambesi form. That it is not M. b. malosce is shown 

 at once by the dark colour of its belly and eye-rings. 



15. Crociduba (Cr.), sp. inc. 

 a. 6 . Fort Hill, July 1896. 



A large species, apparently allied to 0. anchietce, Boc. 



16. Ceociduea (Ce.), sp. inc. 



a-G. Kombe, Masuku Eange, 7000 ft., July 1896. 

 d, e. Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., June, July, 1896. 



