1902.] MAMMALS PROM ABYSSINIA. 313 



19. Pelomys harringtoni, sp. n. 



c? . Katchisa, Kutai, "W. Shoa. 23 June. 



General appeai-ance of P. dembeensis above, bvit belly with three 

 bright buffy lines. 



Size about as in P. dembeensis, smaller than in P.fallax. Fur 

 rather crisp; general hairs of back about 12 mm. in length, the 

 longer hairs overtopping them by about 5-6 mm. General colour 

 dark lined olivaceous, more distinctly greenish than in P. fallax. 

 Sides paler, more fulvous and more heavily lined. Under surface 

 white (the hairs white nearly to their roots), with three bright 

 buffy yellow lines running down it, one median on the chest and 

 upper belly, and two lateral, bordering the dark colour of the sides 

 the whole length of the animal, from the upper lip down the neck, 

 body, and front of hind limbs to the ankles. Head like body, 

 indistinct yellowish spots above and below eyes. Ears brown, 

 their basal hairs yellowish. Fore limbs grizzled olive externally, 

 darkening to brown on the hands ; white on the inner surface. 

 Hind legs olive externally, white edged with yellow internally; 

 feet grizzled fidvous and bi'own. Tail thinly haired, blackish 

 above, dull yellowish below. 



Skull comparatively small and slender; interorbital region 

 narrow, finely beaded. Palatal foramina well open, not markedly 

 narrowed posteriorly, their hinder end level with the anterior 

 root of m} ; posterior edge of palate level with the middle of 7?^^ 



Incisors narrower than in P. fallax and much less distinctly 

 grooved, the groove in fact almost obsolete. Molars smaller and 

 more delicate than in P. fallax, but with the same essential 

 distinctions from those of Golunda. Inner tubercle of each lamina 

 throughout larger, and middle one smaller than in P. fallax, so 

 that the inner oue is about three-fourths the size of the middle 

 one or more, while in P. fallax the middle tubercle is always twice 

 the breadth of the inner one. 



Dimensions of the type, taken on the skin : — - 



Head and body 140 mm. ; tail 90 -| — (imperfect) ; hind foot 

 (s. u.) (wet) 27-3 ; ear (dry) 15. 



Skull — ^tip of nasals to back of frontals 25 ; greatest breadth 

 14*5; nasals 12*5 x 3*8; interorbital breadth 4-1; palate length 

 from henselion 13"3 ; diastema 8*5; palatal foramina 6'6x2'2; 

 length of upper molar series 6. 



Type. S ■ B. M. No. 2.9.9.36. 



The only described species allied to P. hari'ingtoni is Riippell's 

 Mus dembeensis, considered by Mr. de Winton ^ (although with 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 133 mm.; tail 104; hind foot (s. u.) 23; ear 16. 



Skull — greatest length 30; basilar length 26; greatest breadth 16; interorbital 

 breadth 5 ; length of upper molar series 5'9. 



Hab. Northern Somali-land. Type from Shuk, alt. 4000 feet. 



Ti/pe. Old male. B.M. No. 97.12.3.9. Collected and presenf:ed by E. Lorfc 

 Phillips, Esq. Many specimens examined, 



1 P.Z.S. 1901, ^. 81. 



