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Show 108 MR. HAROLD SCHWANN ON [Feb. 6, white. The whole of the upper parts buffy yellow strongly suffused with black ; cheeks, flanks, and upper surface of hind limbs as far as the ankle-joint pure buff-colour. Individual hairs of dorsal region about 16 m m . in length, basal three-fifths slate-grey, subterminal ring fawn, tip black ; the hairs on the flanks without the black tip. Under surface, with the exception of the throat and the inguinal region which are dirty white, bright buffy, the light grey bases of the hairs showing through in places. Tail indistinctly bicolor, covered with fine hair, dark brown above, creamy white below, terminal portion unicoloured light brown, tip with a minute tuft. Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh):-Head and body 114 m m . ; tail 152; hind foot 24; ear 17. Skull:-Greatest length 30*3 ; basilar length 23'4 ; breadth across brain-case 13*7 ; zygomatic breadth 14*5; interorbital breath 14-5; nasals 13'4x4; palate length 13'0; diastema 8'0 ; upper molar series 5*5. Hab. Deelfontein, Cape Colony. Type. Female. B.M. no. 3.1.4.51. Collected 1st Sept., 1902, by Mr. C. H . B. Grant and presented to the British Museum by Col. A. T. Sloggett. The buff-coloured belly by which this local race is distinguished from the typical subspecies appears to be a remarkably constant character, all the specimens Mr. Grant collected at Deelfontein possessing it in a striking degree. " Native name ' Tube.' " These mice chiefly frequent the tops and slopes of the hills, living in the holes and cracks of the rocks with the dassies. I have never seen this mouse except in the Kuruman hills, where it is fairly plentiful. I do not think it is to be found in the flats below."-R. B. W. 18. Mus WOOSNAMI, sp. nov. (Plate VI.) tf. W . 33, 39, 42, 52; D. 130. $ . W . 40 ; D. 131, 134. Kuruman. cT. W . 86. $. W . 101. A medium-sized species of a pale grey colour with a mammary formula of 3-2 = 10. General colour of upper surface between " smoke-grey" and " drab-grey " (Ridgway), more or less pencilled with black ; flanks considerably lighter, with no black pencilling. Individual hairs of back about 15 m m . in length, basal half " slate-grey," subterminal ring " drab-grey," terminal portion black. Colour of under surface creamy white, the light grey bases of the hair showing through in places. Head coloured like back, occasionally rather lighter; a line extending from the muzzle to the inner side of the fore limb, white. Whiskers soft, fine, and black, about 35 m m . in length. Ears of medium size, oval, the edges covered externally with minute black hairs, internally with wdiite. Upper surface of hands and feet clothed with fine white hair not extending over |