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Show 446 MR. O. THOMAS ON MAMMALS [June 3, Iu Rhynchocyon and Macroscelides other specimens in the Museum show the same fact equally clearly and decisively. The revised formulae for the three genera will therefore be:- Rhynchocyon: I. 0-°^^°,C. \ , P. ^|f|^, M. ±£? X 2=34 or 36. Petrodromus: I. [^f, C. \ , P. nf^, M. [^ X 2 = 40. 1.2.3.4 Macroscelides: I. J^f, C. \1 ,.2 .P3..4 ^' /tri M - l .V .Vo" o X 2 =40 or 6. MACROSCELIDES RUEESCENS, Peters (?). «. $. Usambiro. 1/9/89. " Iride nigerrima. This single specimen found amongst the high dry grasses. Runs like a Gerbille. Native name ' Gosso'."-E. This beautiful little Elephant-Shrew appears to agree in all essential characters with Peters's M. rufescens, although it is considerably paler and less rufescent in colour than some of the original specimens of that species now in the Museum. Its colour is in fact more like that shown on the plate of " M. revoilif Huet \ a form which will, I suspect, be found to be specifically identical with the earlier described M. rufescens. 7. EPOMOPHORTTS MINOR, Dobs. a. o* • Kiriamo. 16/5/89. b-d. J 2 • Bagamoyo. 20/2/90. "Iride pallide umbrina. 10 to 20 individuals together on cocoa-palms, inside the town of Bagamoyo."-E. 8. EPOMOPHORUS PTJSILLTJS, Pet. a. d. Kiriamo. 14/5/89. " Iride pallide umbrina." 9. NYCTINOMTJS PUMILTJS, Cretzschm. a, b. S 2 • Usambiro. 9/9/89. c. tf. Bagamojx.. 24/1/90'. " Iride fusca. Frequent among the rocks. Native name' Ka-tunke.'"- E. 10. ANOMALTJRUS ORIENTALIS, Peters. a. Monda, Nguru Mountains. The present is only the second specimen of this interesting species that has been obtained, the type in the British Museum having remained unique up to the present time. As that type was bought from negroes in the streets of Zanzibar by Fischer, Dr. Emins example is the first that shows where the species really occurs wild. A. orientalis is unquestionably very closely allied to the first described species of the genus, A. fraseri, Waterh., a native of Fernando Po. 1 Eevoil's ' Fauna et Flore des Pays-Comalis,' pi. 1 (1882). |