556 



BLARINA. 



Blaria Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, p. xxi. 

 Talposorex Pomel, Archiv. Scien. Phys. & Nat. Bibl. Univ. Geneve, 



ix, 1848, p. 248. 

 Cryptotis Pomel, Archiv. Scien. Phys. & Nat. Bibl. Univ. Geneve, 



ix, 1848, p. 249. 

 Galemys (nee Kaup) Pomel, Archiv. Scien. Phys. & Nat. Bibl. 



Univ. Geneve, ix, 1848, p. 249. (Part.) 

 Anotus Wagn., Supp. Schreb. Saugeth, 1855, p. 550. 

 Soriciscus Cones, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., 1877, p. 



649. 



Ear conch truncate above; tail short; fourth upper incisor rudi- 

 mentary or absent; first and second unicuspids largest, subequal; 

 middle incisor with elongate basal lobe; braincase highest at lamb- 

 doidal suture. 



FIG. 104. BLARINA PERGRACILIS. TYPE. 



No. 868g Field Columbian Mus. Enlarged 2'/ times. 

 Tooth rows enlarged 6 times. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. 

 A. Size small, total length less than 100 mm. 

 a. Tail less than half as long as the head and 



body, 

 a/ Above blackish olive brown, beneath pale PAGE 



grayish brown B. pergracilis 557 



b/ Above ash brown, beneath grayish B. b. berlandieri 558 



c.' Above and beneath blackish B. nigrescens 558 



