1896.] FROM BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA, 805 
“*Pouch-Rat. Native name ‘ Sigi.’”—J. ff. D. 
Collector’s measurements, taken in the flesh, of type 95.8.27.10 in 
Brit. Mus. :—Head and body 135 mm.; tail 35; ear 18; hind foot 
(taken from dried skin) 22. 
Skull: greatest length 35:5; breadth 17-3; basal length 31:5; 
henselion to back of palate 18; palate to foramen mag. 11; length 
of upper molar series 5; incisive foramina 7; diastema 11; 
mandible, height at coronoid 12; tips of incisors to condyle 24. 
Colour above dark iron-grey, formed by a mixture of grey-drab 
and black, the sides and thighs with much less black intermixed ; 
on the cheeks and along the lower margin of the dark colouring of 
the upper parts there is a strong tinge of drab, which includes the 
upper lips and the forearms, before passing into the cream-white 
of the underparts, but posteriorly the light colouring passes along 
the inner side of the thighs and only the feet are whitish. All 
the hairs of the underparts are slate-grey for the greater part of 
their length, finely tipped or ringed with grey-drab ; those on the 
head and back have long black tips, and there appear to be many 
very fine entirely black hairs intermixed, but owing to the extreme 
softness of the fur it is very difficult to give a precise description ; 
the general effect is drab-grey, strongly washed with shining black. 
One specimen, a very old male, does not show quite so much black 
on the back, and is rather more washed with drab; but the third, 
an adult female, agrees most perfectly with the type in colouring. 
The animal under notice is a much larger species than S. cam- 
pestris, Pet., but, besides the size, the dark grey colour at once 
distinguishes it from its congeners. 
The skull does not show any marked peculiarity that would not 
naturally be looked for in a larger animal; but m.2 has a small 
though well-developed extra outer anterior cusp, the position being 
occupied by a mere ledge in S. campestris. 
Tail rather thinly covered with hair, intermixed are longer very 
fine hairs which stand out, recalling the tail of a Crocidura; in old 
animals the tail becomes nearly naked. 
15. STHATOMYS PRATENSIS, Pet. 
a. Ad. sk. d. Mazoe, Mashunaland, 19 August, 1895. 
B. Ad. sk. 3. ” ” 1 ” ” 
“Very fat, not common. Native name ‘ Shana.’ ”—J. ff. D. 
Collector’s measurements, taken in the flesh, of a :—Head and 
body 96 mm.; tail 45; hind foot 17; ear 16. 
General colour dull drab-brown, underparts white, feet dirty 
white. The measurement of the ear would seem large enough for 
Dr. Peters’s S. krebsi, but the colour agrees with the species to 
which I have referred it, and indeed the second specimen has a 
considerably shorter ear, 
16. GuoRYCHUS DARLINGI, Thos. (Plate XL. fig. 1.) 
a. Ad. sk. d¢. Mazoe, Mashunaland, 11 March, 1895. 
8. Imm.sk. 3. ,, ve hers » 
