On neto Mammals from East Africa. 563 of a darker brown than the four discal stripes, deflected stnjiij^ly proxiinad at the pseudosutural fovese, their anterior ends coufliieiit with the sublateral stripes ; extreme lateral and anterior margin of prsescutum pale ; scutal lobes dark ; scutellum pale basally, the caudal margin dark ; postnotum with a basal dark triaug'e, the apex directed backward, followed posteriorly by a pale yellow transverse stripe ; caudal margin of postnotum narrowly darkened. Pleura grey, conspicuously variegated with brown, this not appearing as a distinct dorso-pleural stripe as in C conspicab'ilis ; a conspicuous light yellow dorso-jjleural stripe passing beneath the wing-root across the postnotum as described above. Halteres broken. Legs with the coxce grey ; anterior coxa3 with two longitudinal brown lines ; mid-and hind coxre with a single conspicuous brown blotch; trochanters yellow; femora brownish yellow, the apices broadly dark brown ; a broad, conspicuous, yellow subterminal ring ; tibia3 and tarsi l)rownish yellow. Wings with a strong brownish suffusion ; stigma brown ; a brown cloud at the fork of Cu and at r-m ; veins brown. Venation as in the genus ; the tip of i?3 bent strongly cephalad, so that cell Rs is abruptly widened outwardly. Abdomen with the tergites dark brown, the lateral and caudal margins very narrowly pale yellow. Ovipositor with the valves horn-coloured. Hub. Fiji. Holotype, ? , Laba?a, Octob-r 1914 [R. Veitch). Ty})e in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), Ctenacroscelis fijiensis differs from the Australian C. con-spicabilis (Skuse) in the stouter and difl'erently coloured legs, the fulvous antennse, and the pale dorso-pleural stripe that continues caudad across the mesonotal postnotum. LIV. — On some new small Mammals from East Africa. By P. S. Kershaw. (PublisLed by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) Elephantulus ocularis, sp. n. A member of the ru/escens group, with sternal gland, bicoloured short-haired tail of moderate length, and short sleek fur. Colour of the head and back liglit fawn, between "ecru-drab" and " vinaceous cinnamon" (Ridgway), similar to 36*
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