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wintoni the 1st claw is moderately large and the 4th fairly distinct. 

 In two typical adult specimens of the former the claws measure : 

 1st, 3 mm. and 3 mm. ; 2nd, Q-o mm. and 7 mm. ; 3rd, 11 mm. and 

 12 mm. ; 4th, -8 mm. and 1*2 mm. In the type of C. lointoni the 

 <jlaws measure : 1st, 4*8 mm. ; 2nd, 4-8 mm. ; 3rd, 10*5 mm. ; 4th, 

 1*5 mm. There is also in this new species a very large pad at the 

 base of the 1st digit, which makes the manus relatively much 

 broader than in any other known species. 



The type specimen, which is a female, measures 86 mm. in length, 

 but as it is a spirit specimen it probably measured when in the fresh 

 condition about 92 mm. The hind foot measures 10-3 mm. 



The skull resembles somewhat that of C. asiatica, but differs in 

 being smaller, in having the occipital region rounder, in the much 

 greater development of the interorbital region, and in the smaller 

 size of the temporal bulla. This is the only known species in which 

 the upper olfactory region is much wider than the anterior cranial 

 region, the former measuring 9 mm. across and the latter 7*7 mm. 



In general the teeth are not unlike those of C. asiatica, but the 

 molars have a smaller transverse measurement. 



The following are the principal measurements of the skull : — . 









Orbital 



Dental 



Molar 



Palatal 



jength. 



Breadth. 



Height. 



Region. 



Series. 



Series. 



Width. 



21-3 



16-2 



11-2 



9-2 



9 



5-4 



7-8 



This species I have named in honour of Mr. W. E. de Winton, 

 who has done much valuable work in connection with African 

 mammals, and to whom I owe my first introduction to southern 

 forms. 



The type (No. 1917) belongs to the South African Museum. 



At Port Nolloth this mole inhabits the sandy hills and flats. Its 

 food probably consists of beetle larva and insects. 



Chrysochloeis granti. Broom. 

 When living at Garies, Namaqualand, in 1898, I made large 

 collections of small mammal skulls from the disgorged pellets of 

 owls, and on examining the collection of mole skulls I have dis- 

 covered that they belong to three different species, all new to 

 science. I was not successful in getting the skins of any, but in the 

 South African Museum there is a spirit specimen, without locality, 

 which on examination proves to belong to the same species as one of 

 my sets of Garies skulls. This new species is the smallest form at 

 present known. 



