226 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON A NEW ANTELOPE. [Mar. 17, 
{t appeared to belong to a new species allied to the Congolese 
Cephalophus weynsi Thos., and was described as follows :— 
CEPHALOPHUS IGNIFER, Sp. n. 
Size medium. Fur close, fine and glossy, hairs of back about 
an inch in length. General colour of back bright rufous or bay 
(nearest to ochraceous-rufous of Ridgway), darkening forwards on — 
the neck and shoulders to dull brownish. Forehead mixed rufous 
and black; crown and occiput bright rufous like back, coronal 
tuft a deeper and more chestnut or vinaceous rufous. Hairs of 
occiput reversed upwards to the crest as usual, those of nape all 
directed backwards. Muzzle blackish ; lips and chin white; ears 
dark brown behind, with white edges and inner surfaces. Throat 
rufous. _ Belly brown mesially, grading into rufous laterally. 
Inner side of forearms, inguinal region, and inner side of thighs 
white. Outer side of forearms and thighs rufous; feet brown, 
darkening almost to black above the hoofs. Tail rufous above, 
white below, proximally, with a mixed brown and white terminal 
GulGHene 
Skull of normal proportions; premaxille just reaching nasals, 
frontal convex as usual; posterior palate variable, that of the 
male cut out some way in front of the lateral notches, while in 
the female the median notch is posterior to the lateral ones. 
Horns laid back just in the line of the face, those of an adult 
male 98 mm. long, with a basal diameter of 31 mm.; the same 
dimensions in an immature female 49 and 20. 
The young specimen (skull 105 mm. long, the last milk premolar 
only just up) is nearly black all over, the coronal region and the 
posterior back alone being rufous. 
Dimensions of the type, an adult male, measured in skin :— 
Head and body 810 mm., hind foot, with hoof, (c.) 240, ear 81. 
Skull—basal length 162, greatest breadth 79°5, muzzle to orbit . 
94, nasals 73 x 32; palate length 97; length of upper tooth-row 
53, of three upper premolars 23:4. 
Hab. Eldoma Ravine, British East Africa, alt. 7200 feet. 
Type. Male. B.M. No. 2.11.17.6. Collected and presented by 
F. W. Isaac, Esq. Three specimens. 
Native name ‘“ Meindet.” 
This Duiker is allied to C. weynsi of the Eastern Congo and 
C. johnstoni of Toro by its colour and general characters, but 
differs from them by the hairs of its nape being all directed back- 
wards in the usual way. ©. harveyi of Kilima-njaro, also a 
member of this group, has a blackish forehead and no chestnut 
corona] tuft. 
, The following papers were read :— 
