Crocidura foxi Dollman, 1915 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 15:514.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Panyam .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Jos Plateau, Nigeria, but possibly has a wider distribution in the Sudan savanna zone of West Africa from Senegal to S Sudan.

SYNONYMS: tephra.

COMMENTS: A member of the poensis group,/oxi may be conspecific with theresae, which it antedates; see Hutterer and Happold (1983). A series from Owerri, S Nigeria, referred to /oxi by these authors, was later, upon re-examination, identified as a dark form of lamottei . The holotype of tephra Setzer, 1956 has been recently examined and is regarded as representing /oxi in S Sudan; a previous allocation to viaria (Hutterer, 1984) was based upon examination of a paratype skin; however, the holotype represents a different species.