1897.] PROM NTASALAND. 931 



head and body, short-haired, brown above, rather paler below ; no 

 longer hairs seem to be intermixed with the short ones, but owing 

 to the partial loss of the hair it cannot be stated with absolute 

 certainty that this is the case. 



Skull fairly broadly built. Anterior incisors rather short, their 

 posterior basal cusp very sharply pointed, reaching to scarcely one- 

 third the height of the succeeding tooth so far as the latter's anterior 

 edge is concerned. First unicuspid long and slender, third about 

 half its length ; second and fourth quite small, subeqnal, about 

 half the height of the third. Last upper molar of the squarish 

 form found in Myosorex varius. Anterior lower incisors slender, 

 their upper edges indistinctly notched. 



Measurements of the type, an adult male in spirit : — 



Head and body 60 mm. ; tail 85 ; hind foot 14-5. 



Skull : basal length 15 ; greatest length, including incisors, 18*1 ; 

 greatest breadth anteriorly 5"8, posteriorly 8 ; interorbital breadth 

 4-1 ; palate length from gnathion 7"2. 



Hah. Masuku Plateau. 



On the basis of Dobson's work, I have provisionally placed this 

 distinct little Shrew in the genus Myosorex, as it seems allied by 

 characters both of teeth and tail to the species he termed J/, morio 

 and M.johnsfonii ; but J am by no means convinced that these species 

 are really congeneric with M. varius, the type of the genus, and that 

 they ought not to be considered simply as Pachyurce. The length 

 of the tail of M. sorella will distinguish it at once from any South- 

 African Shrew hitherto desci'ibed. 



20. Nandinia gebkardi, Thos. 



a. Native skin, Masuku Plateau. 



It is unfortunate that this skin, Uke the two original ones, is 

 native made and without a skull. The cranial characters of this 

 striking species are therefore still unknown. 



21. Herpestes gracilis, Eiipp. 



a. Karonga, Lake Nyasa, July 1896. 

 6. Lakangala, Zomba, 22 Feb., 1897.] 



22. Ceossabchtjs fasciatus, Desm. 



a. Tg. $ . Mt. Malosa, 8000 ft., 20 Nov., 1896. 



23. Ltcaon pictus, Temm. 



a, 6. 2 2 (young). Mt. Zomba, 5/12/96. 

 Shot by Mr. Alfred Sharpe, high up on Mount Zomba. 

 Both specimens retain their milk-dentition, although they have 

 nearly reached their full size. 



24. PcECiLOGALB ALBiNUCHA, Gray. 



a. Kombe, Masuku Range, 7000 ft., July 1896. 

 h. Separate skuU. 



