Suncus varilla (Thomas, 1895) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 16:54.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., East London .

DISTRIBUTION: Savannahs from the Cape (South Africa) to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, E Zaire, Malawi; an isolated record from Nigeria.

SYNONYMS: meesteri, minor, natalensis, orangiae, tulbaghensis, warreni (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977:6).

COMMENTS: Closely associated with termite mounds (Lynch, 1986). Gureev (1979:383) listed orangiae and warreni as distinct species without comment. Common in the Pleistocene of Kenya (Butler and Greenwood, 1979).