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Show 804 MR. W. E. DE WINTON ON SOME RODENTS [Nov. 17, length of upper molar series 4-8 ; diastema 7; mandible, coronoid 9 ; tips of incisors to condyle 18. Dorsal stripes arranged as in A. pumillo, Sparrm., but all the stripes more clearly defined; the general colour darker and more dusky above and below. A dark stripe commences between the eyes ; immediately behind the ears it widens out and branches into two stripes, which join again just above the base of the tail; the median space from the neck to near the tail is more rufous than the body-colour; outside the two dorsal black stripes, from tbe neck to the rump, are two pale buff stripes, and outside these again two black stripes commencing at the back of the ears and running to the base of the tail; all the stripes are subequal in width ; outside these stripes the fur is a dark rich mixture of red-brown and black, the colour gradually fading to the paler underside, which is dusky, strongly washed with orange ; the feet share the general much darker grizzled colour as compared with A.pumilio typicus. By the measurements it will be seen that this species is considerably smaller than its Cape ally, and of about the same size as the brightly-coloured A. pumillo dimlnutus, Thos., of British E. Africa. 12. DASYMYS INCOMTUS FUSCUS, subsp. n. a. Sen. sk. $ . Mazoe, Mashunaland, 4 August, 1895. 3. Ad. sk. 6* • „ „ 1 „ y. Ad. sk. d. „ „ 2 „ „ (type). " Native name ' Garu.' "-J.ff. B. Collector's measurements, taken in the flesh, of type 95.11.3.14 in Brit. Mus.:-Head and body 157 mm.; tail 146 ; hind foot 32 ; ear 21. Skull: greatest length 37 mm.; breadth 20-2; basal length 35; henselion to back of palate 20 ; palate to foramen mag. 13 ; length of upper molar series 7'3; diastema 12-2; mandible, height at coronoid 14; incisor-tips to condyle 27. Size and general characters as in the type species, but differing in colour, being of a uniform sooty black, only slightly grizzled with yellow. Upper incisors deep red-orange; lower incisors brownish honey-colour. There is considerable difference in the ages of these three specimens, the female being evidently very old, but all agree most perfectly in colour, and there can be no doubt this is a well-marked geographical race and must be distinguished by name. 13. GOLUNDA FALLAX, Pet. Skull only received. "o*. Mazoe, Mashunaland."-J. ff. D. 14. SACCOSTOMUS MASHONiE, sp. n. a. Ad. sk. o*. Mazoe, Mashunaland, 13 June, 1895 (type). 3. Ad. sk. 6. „ 5 May, 1895. y. Ad. sk. 2 • „ 19 „ |
