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Show 182 MR. O. THOMAS ON SMALL [Mar. 3, and the other occurs over the whole of Africa. The same sort of thing is the case with the other specimens. In this part of the new British Territories, therefore, we seem to possess a region of exceptional zoological interest, as being the meeting-place of the North-eastern, Western, and Southern faunas; and it is m u c h to be hoped that under the auspices of the Imperial British East-African Company other naturalists will follow Mr. Jackson's spirited example, and that we shall thereby gain a thorough knowledge of the manner in which the different zoological districts pass into one another within our " sphere of influence." The collection consists of 38 specimens, referable to 15 species, of which three, two Rodents and a Bat, are new to science1. The forms mostly belong to groups so obscure zoologically, and so troublesome and difficult of collection under the trying circumstances inseparable from such an expedition, that Mr. Jackson deserves the sincere thanks of zoologists for this material contribution to our knowledge of the smaller Mammals of Africa. I. HERPESTES GRACILIS, Riipp. a. One specimen. 2. PETRODROMUS TETRADACTYLUS, Ptrs. a. c$. One specimen. 3. CROCIDURA HEDENBORGI, Sund. a. Mianzini. 8/89. 4. EPOMOPHORUS MINOR, Dobs. a-c. Turquel, Siik. 1/90. This rare species has been obtained at Zanzibar and Bagamoyo, and also, by Dr. E m m Pasha, at Kiriamo, just south of the Albert Nyanza. 5. NYCTINOMUS LOBATUS, sp. n. a. 6 • Turquel, Siik. 1/90. Type. Allied to N. cestoni, Savi2, or rather N. tceniotis, Raf.3, as it ought to be called, and to N. africanus, Dobs.; but distinguished from both by its larger ears, larger tragus, higher antitragus (fig. p. 183), and coloration, while in other respects it agrees sometimes with one and sometimes with the other, and forms iu some respects a connecting- link between them. Ears very large, rounded, laid forward they extend quite a quarter of an inch beyond the tip of the muzzle ; their inner bases united on the muzzle; their substance comparatively thin and transparent; keel of the conch scarcely thickened below ; antitragus very high 1 Preliminary descriptions of the new species were published in Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) vii. p. 303 (1891). 2 N. Giorn. Lett. p. 230 (1825). 3 Precis decouv. somiol. p. 12 (1814) |