500 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OP THE ETJWENZORI EXPEDITION. 



winter coat ; below smoke-grey ; the line of demarcation mach less sharply marked 

 than in G. microtis. Hands and feet dark to the base of the toes, which are white. 



Skull flatter, brain-case broader, and bullae markedly smaller than in G. microtis. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 79 mm. ; tail circ, 90 (broken in the type) ; hind foot 17-5 ; ear 16. 



Skull : greatest length 27 ; basilar length 21 ; greatest breadth 15 ; brain-case 

 breadth 12'3 ; interorbital breadth 4'5 ; length of nasals 11; diastema 6'4 ; antero- 

 posterior length of bullae in the plane of the palate 7"6 ; upper molar series 3"4. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 6.12.4.37. Original number 284. Collected by 

 Mr. Douglas Carruthers, 23rd March, 1906. 



This little Dormouse is easily separable from G. mici'otis, its nearest neighbour, by 

 its bullae and the colour of its feet. True's G. parvus, from the Tana River, belongs 

 apparently to the group of small forms with white bellies and feet represented by 

 G. smithii Thos. 



[Rare on Ruwenzori. A few specimens were obtained in the dry wooded ravines 

 at the east end of the range. The natives say that this mouse frequents their grain- 

 stores more than any other species, and also the thatched roofs of their huts, but we 

 did not find this to be the case. — R. B. W.] 



49. Gkaphiueus miceotis Noack. 



? . 681 and $ in spirits. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori. 3400 ft. 



We have not seen the type of Noack's G. microtis from the south end of Lake 

 Tanganyika, but the British Museum possesses specimens from the Nyika plateau 

 which satisfy, so far as we are in a position to judge, all the requirements of Noack's 

 description. The present specimens do not diff"er in any material degree from these 

 Nyika specimens of G. microtis. 



The large size of the bullae as compared with those of G. soleatus is most marked, 

 their antero-posterior length, corresponding to that given above for G. soleatus, is no 

 less than 9 mm. Although the highest part of the brain-case in G. microtis is well 

 in front of a line passing vertically through the auditory meatus, yet the total depth 

 of the skull on this line is almost a millimetre greater than in G. soleatus [i. e. 10'6 to 

 9 '7 mm.). 



Family M u R i D iE. 



50. Tateea euwenzokii, sp. n. 



? . 302, 308, 678. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori. 3400 ft. 



A Tatera about the size of and outwardly resembling T. liodon, but with a 

 proportionally longer tail and with shorter anterior and longer posterior palatal 

 foramina. 



