Vol. XXIV, pp. 241-242 November 28, 1911 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



TWO NEW SHREWS FROM KASHMIR. 



BY GERRIT S. MILLER, JR. 

 [By permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] 



In a collection of mammals from Kashmir recently presented 

 to the United States National Museum by Dr. W. L. Abbott 

 are specimens of two shrews which have not hitherto been 

 described. 



Crocidura pullata sp. now 



Typt .— Adultmale (skin and skull ) No. 173,213 V. S. National Museum. 

 Collected at Kotihar, Kashmir (altitude 7000 feet) October 9, 1910, by 

 by Dr. W". L. Abbott. Original number, 7421. 



Diagnosis. — General characters much as in Crocidura fumigata as de- 

 scribed by de Filippi and figured by Dobson, but size greater (head and 

 body 80-90 instead of about 60), third upper unicuspid about equal to 

 second, and basal lobes of i 1 low and broad as in C. russula. 



Color.— Upperparts a uniform, dark hair-brown with a slaty tinge and 

 sometimes a wash of wood-brown, the hairs showing rather noticeable 

 silvery reflections in certain lights; basal portion of hairs slate-color; 

 underparts between smoke-gray and ecru-drab, the slaty under color 

 showing through irregularlj'. 



Skull and teeth.— The skull is about the same length as that of Crocidura 

 russula, but the general structure is decidedlj more robust, and the out- 

 line of braincase is noticeably longer than broad; distance from front of 

 glenoid surface to back of condyle equal to greatest breadth of braincase 

 instead of decidedly less as in C. russula; mandible more heavily built, 

 both in ramus and postdental region. The teeth differ from those of 

 Crocidura russula in relatively greater size of first unicuspid, less 

 development of minute cusp at inner base of large upper incisor, and 

 greater crown area of molars. 



Measurements.— Type: head and body, 90; tail, 43; hind foot (dry) 15 

 (14). Average and extremes of nine adults from the type locality: head 

 and body, 86.1 (82-90); tail, 42.6 (40-47). Skull of type: condylobasal 

 length, 19.8; zygomatic breadth, 6.2; breadth of braincase, 9.0; condylo- 



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