wo new 2Oodonts fron 
British Vast Africa 
By “dmund Heller 
Naturalist, Smithsonian African 
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ing; original No. 6684, 
General characters: 
dental characters and 
ne. 
Bea? i a 7, Epa nae 
ne Tae MArked On each 
of snout throng: eye to base of ear. 
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wo Murine rodents collected by members of the Smithsonian African 
appear to be 
described, is the second 
dition. 
>» nOV. 
natural si ae} 
ad. (skin and skull), 
» 19093 collected by J. A 
drvas Thomas 
a os 
~ 2 4); coloration 
broad black band from tip 
Upperparts wood brown, washed wit 
trey 2 9 
ayny On rump ana iam 
continuing well dorn 
black from the 
4 
nngerparts, the line 
of head marked by a broad band of 
to base of the ea 4 interorbital 
azle; ears scantily covered by 
inous hairs; whole underparts including cheeks and the fore and hind 
creamy white, the hair besally slate-gray; tail black, clothed scantily 
short bleck hairs which become more numerous posteriorly and form a 
slight pencil at the tin. 
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Measurements: head and ‘body, 160; tail, 174; hind foot, 3c; ear, 21 
dry). Skull: condylobasal length, 36.°; atic breadth, 20.2; inter- 
orbital constriction, 4.8; mastoid breafth, 15.6; depth of braincase at 
nasal, 14.0; 2stoma, 10,8; mandible, 22.4; maxillary tooth- 
eg % 
- 4 m fe te In vey {wy Y 4 
» 5.&; mandibular toothrow (aiveoll 
SP. MOV. 
eats 7 fewa yy 
skull 9 Neowuwras 
No. 161905, 
tik. British Bast Africa; June I od by EB. Holler; 
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General characters: Skull long and narrow slender appressed 
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gypomatic arches and produced rostrum; molar series short and narrow with 
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the internal cusps illy defined; ears large, rounded, scantily clothed by 
naked. 
Color: Upperparts apeia changing gradu yally to walnul-brown posteriorly; 
sides mixed grayish and fulvous, the transition to the gray of the underparts 
rather abrupt; sides of head and base of ears Lichter brown similar to the 
coloration of the rump; underparts and feet light srayish with ea faint median 
h3; tail dusky. 
fulvous was 
Measurements: 
ear 22, Skull: condylobasal length 
24 
; er aad 24-4 > Os uth nCaHe ft 
orbitel constriction, 5.0; mastodd breadth, 12.8; depth of braince at 
middle, 9.0; nasal, 12,8; diastema, 8.6; mandible, 19.0; maxillary toothrow 
? 
(crowns), 5.0; mandibular toothrwo (alveoli), 

