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Show 1902.] MAMMALS FROM ABYSSINIA. 19. P e l o m y s HARRINGTONI, sp. n. d . Katchisa, Kutai, W. Shoa. 23 June. General appearance of P. dembeensis above, but belly with three bright buffy lines. Size about as in P. dembeensis, smaller than in P.fcdlax. Fur rather crisp; general hairs of back about 12 mm. in length, the longer hairs overtopping them by about 5-6 mm. General colour dark lined olivaceous, more distinctly greenish than in P. fallax. Sides paler, more fulvous and more heavily lined. Under surface white (the hairs white nearly to their roots), with three bright buffy yellow lines running down it, one median on the chest and upper belly, and two lateral, bordering the dark colour of the sides the whole length of the animal, from the upper lip down the neck, body, and front of hind limbs to the ankles. Head like body, indistinct yellowish spots above and below eyes. Ears brown, their basal hairs yellowish. Fore limbs grizzled olive externally, darkening to brown on the hands ; white on the inner surface. Hind legs olive externally, white edged with yellow internally; feet grizzled fulvous and brown. Tail thinly haired, blackish above, dull yellowish below. Skull comparatively small and slender; interorbital region narrow, finely beaded. Palatal foramina well open, not markedly narrowed posteriorly, their hinder end level with the arfterior root of m1; posterior edge of palate level with the middle of m3. Incisors narrower than in P. fallax and much less distinctly grooved, the groove in fact almost obsolete. Molars smaller and more delicate than in P. fallax, but with the same essential distinctions from those of Golunda. Inner tubercle of each lamina throughout larger, and middle one smaller than in P. fallax, so that the inner one is about three-fourths the size of the middle one or more, while in P. fallax the middle tubercle is always twice the breadth of the inner one. Dimensions of the type, taken on the skin:-- Head and body 140 mm. ; tail 90H- (imperfect); hind foot (s. u.) (wet) 27'3 ; ear (dry) 15. Skull-tip of nasals to back of frontals 25; greatest breadth 14*5 ; nasals 12-5 x 3'8 ; interorbital breadth 4*1 ; palate length from henselion 13*3 ; diastema 8'5 ; palatal foramina 6-6 x 2 ,2; length of upper molar series 6. Type. S . B. M. No. 2.9.9.36. The only described species allied to P. harringtoni is Itlippell's Mus dembeensis, considered by Mr. de Winton1 (although with Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) :- Head and body 133 m m .; tail 104; hind foot (s. u.) 2 3 ; ear 16. Skull- greatest length 3 0 ; basilar length 2 6 ; greatest breadth 16; interorbital breadth 5 ; length of upper molar series 5‘9. Hab. Northern Somali-land. Type from Sliuk, alt. 4000 feet. Type. Old male. B.M. No. 97.12.3.9. Collected and presented by E. Lort Phillips, Esq. Many specimens examined, i P. Z. S. 1901, p. 81- |