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Show 1906.] MAMMALS FROM BECHUANALAND. 103 in the Cape Police canteen and is the first specimen I with."-R. B. IV. 6. NYCTINOMUS BOCAGEI Seabra. cT. W . 19. 2- W . 15; D. 16. Kuruman. " One of these long-tailed Bats was caught in our room in the old mission buildings. .1 have seen some before, but it is not a very common species."-R. B. W. 7. OROCIDURA DESERTI, sp. n. 6 . W. 87. 2 • W . 83. Molopo. A pale-coloured Shrew of medium size, probably allied to C. argentata Sund. Fur fine and silky, about 6 m m . in length on the centre of back. General colour of upper surface between " ecru-drab " and " drab-grey," hardly lighter on the flanks. General colour of under surface from chin to anus silvery cream-colour, contrasting with the colour of the sides ; the line of division sharply defined. Individual hairs of back slate-grey basally, subterminal ring dull white, tip between walnut-brown and mars-brown. Hairs of belly light grey basally, creamy white terminally. Head coloured like body ; snout strongly bifid; ears sparsely covered with minute white hairs ; fore and hind limbs and feet pure white. Tail about half the length of the head and body, stoutly built, covered with minute white hairs. The lateral gland is well marked in both the specimens. Second and third unicuspids subequal, about half the size of the first. Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh):-Head and body 92 mm.; tail 46 ; hind foot 14 ; ear 12. Skull:-Basal length 22 mm.; anterior breadth 7*6 ; posterior breadth 10; interorbital breadth 5'5; length of upper tooth-series 10'2 ; tip of i1 to tip of p1 5*4. Hob. Molopo, west of Morokwen. Type. Male. B.M. no. 4.10.1.62. Original number 87. Collected 13th July, 1904. J. W . Grill, who described * the collections made by J. F. Yictorin in South Africa, mentions that the type of C. argentata was obtained at Roodeval in the Karroo. " I obtained both these Shrews in the dry bed of the Molopo River, among the long dry grass, in traps baited with dough set in old mole-holes. The owls catch a great many of them, and I think they must be common, but are difficult to get."-R. B. W. 8. HERPESTES GALERA Erxl. 2 . W . 47. Kuruman. " Native name ' Moduba.' " This Mongoose was trapped in the reeds on the Kuruman River. The natives say there used to be a great many about, * Zool. Anteckn. in Vetensk. Ak. Handl. 1858, ii. p. 1(5, no. 10. |