Myosorex varius (Smuts, 1832) . Enumer. Mamm. Capensium, p. 108.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, from NW Cape Province to E Transvaal; Lesotho and Orange Free State.

SYNONYMS: capensis, herpestes, pondoensis, transvaalensis (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977).

COMMENTS: Revised by Meester (1958).