1896.] FROM BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. 805. 



" Pouch-Eat. Native name ' Sugu.' " — 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 pdlale 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 darlt 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 onlj'' the feet are whitish. All 

 the hairs of the underparts are slate- gre}' for the greater part of 

 their length, finely tipped or ringed -nith grey-drab ; those on the 

 head and back have long black tips, and there appear to be many 

 very fiue entirely black hairs intermixed, but owing to the extreme 

 softness of the fur it is very difficult to give a precise description ; 

 tlie 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 typo 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. eampestris. 



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. StHATOMXS PRATINSIS, Pet. 



a. Ad. sk. c? . Mazoe, Mashunaland, 19 August, 1895. 



(i. Ad. sk. S. „ „ 19 



" 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. Icrehsi, but the colour agrees with the species to 

 which I have referred it, and indeed the second specimen has a 

 considerably shorter ear. 



16. GHOETOHtra dahmnsi, Thos. (Plate XL. fig. 1.) 



a. Ad. sk. d . Mazoe, Mashunaland, 11 March, 1895. 

 j3. Imm.sk. tS . „ „ 1 „ „ 



