242 Miller — Two New Shrews from Kashmir. 



glenoid length, 9.0; depth of hraincase, 4.8; mandible, 10.2; maxillary 

 tooth row( entire) 8.8; mandibular tooth row (entire), 8.2, 



Specimens examined. — Sixty-three, from the following localities in 

 Kashmir: Kotihar Valley , 27 ; Sogam, 2; Nowboog Valley, 33; AVangat 

 Valley, 1. 



Sorex planiceps sp. now 



Type.— Adult male (skin and skull) No. 173,915, United States National 

 Museum. Collected at Dachin, Khistwar, Kashmir (altitude, 9000 feet), 

 .May 30, 1911, by Dr. AY. L. Abbott, Original number, 7714. 



Diagnosis. — Color and general external appearance as in Sorex minutus, 

 but size less diminutive; skull as in the largest specimens of S. minutus, 

 but mst rum, palate and interorbital region wider, and braincase more 

 flattened (ratio of depth to width about 50); teeth relatively larger than 

 in S. minutus though of the same general form, except that basal cusp of 

 anterior upper incisor is lower and more robust, somewhat as in S. araneus. 



Measurements. — Type: bead and body, 69; tail, 44; hind foot, 11; 

 condylobasal length of skull, 16.8; zygomatic breadth, 4.8; lachrymal 

 breadth, 3.2; breadth of braincase, 8.0; depth of braincase at middle, 

 4.0; mandible, S.4; maxillary toothrow, 7.0; mandibular toothrow, 6.8. 



Specimens examined. — Seven, from the following localities in Kashmir: 

 Dachin, Khistwar, 3; Sind A'alley, 1; Gadasar, 1; Sogam, 1; Nowboog 

 Valley, 1. 



