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Show 1895.] THE MAMMALS OF ADEN. 547 Bat kept itself entirely separate from them. The second locality was also a cave near sea-level, but, although communicating with the sea, its general level was above high-water mark; here C. afra was in considerable numbers, and was apparently the only species present. Each gravid female had, as usual, only a single foetus. 10. TAPHOZOUS PERFORATUS, Geoffr. a. Lahej. 22. III. 95. b. 2 • Lahej. 29. IIL 95. These two specimens were obtained in the same cave as Xantharpyia eeggptiaca. Only these two species were seen in this cave, or, rather, tunnel, where a stream from the cultivated lands above to the bed of the Wady below had first cut and then burrowed its way underground. Specimen b contained a single foetus. 11. RHINOPOMA MICROPHYLLUM, Geoffr. fl. $ ? Aden. 9. IV. 95. In small cave alone. This was the only specimen met with, although four or five Bats had been reported to have been seen in the cave (up among the rocks) a day or two previous. 12. CROCIDURA RUSSULA (Herm.). a. Aden. 1885. This Shrew, collected and presented to the Museum by Yerbury iu 1885, was examined and identified as *' Crocidura aranea" by Dr. Dobson-an identification which we provisionally accept, although not without some doubts on the subject. W e apply to this species the name russula instead of aranea, for the reasons set forth by Thomas in the ' Zoologist' for 1895 \ 13. CROCIDURA (PACHYURA) ETRUSCA, Savi. «. Aden. 1884. b. Lahej. 17. III. 95. This determination, like the last, is that of Dr. Dobson, in whose writing the 1884 specimen is labelled. 14. ERINACEUS, sp. inc. A Hedgehog is sometimes to be seen for sale in Aden, but the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Lahej do not seem to know the animal; it appears probable, therefore, that these specimens have been brought either from the Somali coast or from the neighbourhood of Makullah to the N.E. of Aden. 15. FELIS MANICULATA, Riipp. fl. c? • Domesticated. Aden. 18. II. 95. b. Neighbourhood of Daraiinia, shot by Mr. C. Chevallier, Eastern Telegraph Co. 1 P. 62. 35* |