Miller yew Asiatic $hr<>tr&. 159 



Characters. In general appearance similar to tiores ininutu* but size 

 considerably greater (hind foot, 13, greatest length of skull, 17). 



Color. Upperparts sepia, slightly darker across lumbar region, and 

 becoming paler on sides where a rather abrupt change takes place to the 

 broccoli-brown of the underparts, Tail distinctly bicolor, dark sepia 

 above and al tip. light shining broccoli-brown beneath. Feet like under 

 surface of tail. 



Skull and teeth. The skull throughout is larger than that of tforex 

 minutun, forming in this respect an exact intermediate between that of 

 the pigmy shrew and tfore.r (ira/tettx. In form it is not peculiar. 



Teeth as in tfore.v ininntux except that the third and fourth unicuspids 

 are subequal when viewed from the side, that is the fourth is not dis 

 tinctly smaller than the third as in the case in S. minutu*. 



MenMure)nent#. External measurements of type*: total length, 107: 

 head and body, 70; tail vertebne, 37; hind foot, 13 (12). 



Cranial measurements of type: greatest length, 17.0 (lo.4)f; greatest 

 postorbital breadth, 8.4 (7.6); greatest antorbital breadth, 4.4 (4): least 

 interorbital breadth, 3.4 (2.8); mandible, 8 (6.6); entire maxillary tooth- 

 row, 7.6 (6.8); entire mandibular toothrow, 7 (6). 



Xpccuiien* '.rtmntied. Three (one in alcohol), all from the type locality. 



*From fresh specimen by collector. 



f Measurements in parenthesis are those of an adult tiorex minuius 

 from Upsala, Sweden. 



