804 MR. W. B, DE WINTON ON SOME RODENTS [Nov. 17, 
length of upper molar series 4-8 ; diastema 7; mandible, height at 
coronoid 9 ; tips of incisors to condyle 18. 
Dorsal stripes arranged as in A. pumilio, Sparrm., but all the 
stripes more clearly defined; the general colour darker and more 
dusky above and below. A dark stripe commences between the 
eyes ; immediately behind the ears it widens out and branches 
into two stripes, which join again just above the base of the tail ; 
the median space from the neck to near the tail is more rufous 
than the body-colour; outside the two dorsal black stripes, from 
the neck to the rump, are two pale buff stripes, and outside these 
again two black stripes commencing at the back of the ears and 
running to the base of the tail; all the stripes are subequal in 
width ; outside these stripes the fur is a dark rich mixture of red- 
brown and black, the colour gradually fading to the paler under- 
side, which is dusky, strongly washed with orange ; the feet share 
the general much darker grizzled colour as compared with A. pumilio 
typicus. 
ee the measurements it will be seen that this species is consider- 
ably smaller than its Cape ally, and of about the same size as the 
brightly-coloured A. pumilio diminutus, Thos., of British E. Africa. 
12, DasyMys INCoMTUS FUSCUS, subsp. n. 
a. Sen. sk. 2. Mazoe, Mashunaland, 4 August, 1895. 
fB. Ad. sk. od. $3 an 1 
y Ad. sk. d. x + 2 
“ Native name ‘ Garu.’”—J. ff. D. 
Collector’s measurements, taken in the flesh, of type 95.11.3.14 
in Brit. Mus. :—Head and body 157 mm. ; tail 146 ; hind foot 32; 
ear 21. 
Skull: greatest length 37 mm.; breadth 20-2; basal length 35; 
henselion to back of palate 20 ; palate to foramen mag. 13; length 
of upper molar series 7*3; diastema 12:2; mandible, height at 
coronoid 14; incisor-tips to condyle 27. 
Size and general characters as in the type species, but differing 
in colour, being of a uniform sooty black, only slightly grizzled 
with yellow. Upper incisors deep red-orange; lower incisors 
brownish honey-colour. 
There is considerable difference in the ages of these three speci- 
mens, the female being evidently very old, but all agree most 
perfectly in colour, and there can be no doubt this is a well-marked 
geographical race and must be distinguished by name. 
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” ”° (type). 
13, GoLUNDA FaLLAXx, Pet. 
Skull only received. 
“3. Mazoe, Mashunaland.”—J. ff. D. 
14, SaccosroMUS MasHONA, sp. n. 
a. Ad. sk. ¢. Mazoe, Mashunaland, 13 June, 1895 (type). 
8. Ad. sk. o. ft 43 5 May, 1895. 
y. Ad. sk. 2. Sy < 19 
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