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Show 460 MESSRS. O. THOMAS AND H. SCHWANN ON THE [Apr. 19, 4. M E G A D E R M A FRONS Geoff. o*. 201; 202. Mulema, Uganda. 5. MACROSCELIDES DELAMEREI Thos. 6 . 109. Demba, Uganda. $ . 540 ; 575 (in spirit). Burumba, Ankole. Colour of iris black (W. G. D.). 6. CROCIDURA NYANS.E Neum. o*. 468; 511. Burumba, Ankole. 7. PCECILQGALE DOGGETTI. Pcecilogale doggetti Thos. & Schw.. Abstr. P. Z. S. 1904, No. 6, p. 22, April 26. 6 . 542. 2 • 543. Burumba, Ankole. Colour of iris clove-brown (IF. G. D.). Allied to the southern form, P. albinucha, but considerably larger. General colour and arrangement of stripes as in the type species described by Gray *, but the lateral stripes are longer in proportion to the median one, being fully two-thirds of its length. Head, neck, and upper half of ears white, passing into "buff-yellow" at the commencement of the median line. Black stripes sharply defined, about 10 mm. broad in the centre of back, tapering off gradually at either extremity. Chin and a patch on the throat dirty white. Under surface, sides of head, flanks, shoulders, and limbs black. Tail white, the long hairs white to their bases, but close to the skin there is a fine black clown which gives the appearance of an indistinct black line down the tail. Skull conspicuously larger and more strongly built than in P. albinucha, but apparently similar in form. The male skull much larger than the female. Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) :- Head and body 356 mm.; tail 242 ; hind foot 46 ; ear 25. Comparative skull-measurements :- P. doggetti. P. albinucha. c? (type). 2. £. mm. mm. mm. Greatest length 60-5 55-5 51-4 S ^ 1 « • 58-0 52-0 48-0 Zygomatic breadth 33'5 31*0 98-5 Mastoid , 31.4 27-0 25-0 Interorbital ,, 11-5 Q.9 t,(. Palate length 27*4 24-3 9'3-n Length of upper c-,-1 rn;tssial ... 6 • 6 6*2 ~6 • 2 lowei- » ... 6-5 6-2 6-2 * P. Z. S. 1864, p. 69. |
