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Show 802 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON MAMMALS [Nov. 20, 5. PAPIO DOGUERA Puch. a. Omo River, 28 Dec, 1899. This may represent P. heuglini, Matsch. 6. GALAGO GALAGO Sehr. Skin. cS. S.E. of Lake Stephanie in Boran Galla Country, 21 Nov., 1899 ; 3000 feet. 7. MACROSCELIDES • BORANUS, sp. n. Rather larger than M. rufescens, to which it is most nearly allied. Colour above very much as in that species, but the back rather a deeper chestnut, aud the sides rather more greyish, so that there is a more marked contrast between back and sides. Face-markings as in the allied form. Ear-conch and the low rounded metatragus as in M. rufescens. Under surface white, more 1 As it is from the same part of Africa, I may take this opportunity of describing a new Bat from a specimen recently obtained by Mr. J. J. Harrison, and presented by him to the British Museum:- KERIVOULA HARKISONI, sp. n. Most nearly allied, according to the characters used in Dobson's synopsis, to K. lanosa A. Smith, but considerably smaller. Fur very long, soft, and woolly, the hairs of the back about 9 mm. in length. Muzzle thickly hairy. Back of ears hairy, except at the edges, these and the whole inner surface practically naked. In shape the ears are very much as in K. lanosa ; then-inner margin slightly convex below, more strongly so above ; tip inconspicuous, behind and below the level of the most convex point of the anterior edge ; below the tip a marked concavity, after which the hinder edge is evenly convex to its base. Tragus, so far as can be seen in the dried skin, very like that of K. lanosa ; its basal lobe small. Fur of back not extending on to the wing-membranes, but the interfemoral is clothed basally with scattered long hairs; the legs are thickly clothed down to the toes; the upperside of the tail is well haired to the tip, and the interfemoral membrane has a thick fringe of hairs along its posterior edge, The forearm is irregularly tufted with fine golden hairs, which are continued on the thumb to the base of its claw, and again along the final edge of the second d'git, edge of wing-membrane, and terminal part of third digit to the extreme tip of wing. The general colour of the back is a dull " old gold," the woolly hairs being blackish basally, then dull buffy orange with their tips blackish, longer hairs tipped with silvery yellow. The hairs ou the legs, feet, tail, and calcars, like those on the forearm, golden yellow, but the interfemoral fringe is a dull pale brown. Belly-hairs blackish basally, dull butty white terminally. Skull very fine and delicate, on the whole very like that of A', brunnea Dobs., though the nasal notch is not so deep. Upper outer incisors nearly as long as the inner ones, the former with a low postero-internal secondary cusp, the latter with a posterior one at about the level of the tip of i'-. Forearm 81*5 nun. Front of canine to back of m.3 52. Hab. YValamo, between Lakes Suai and Marghenta, N.E. Africa. Alt. 6700 feet. Type. B.M. No. 0.11.4.1. 21st February, 1900. Collected and presented by Mr. J. J. Harrison. No species hitherto described can be confused with K. harrisoni. K. lanosa is larger and of a different colour; K. smithi has no interfemoral fringe; K. csrosa has minute outer incisors ; and K. brunnea and K. africana have the same teeth unicuspidate, and the tragus of a different character. |
