Vol. XIV, pp. 95-96 June 27, 1901 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW SHREW FROM SWITZERLAND.* 



BY GERRIT 8. MILLER. .Ik. 



Among some shrews from Switzerland recently purchased by 

 the United States National Museum is a strikingly character- 

 ized species of Croci<J>ira to which none of the names based on 

 members of the genus can be a])])lied. It may be called: 



Crocidura mimula sp. nov. 



7>^v('.— Adult female (skin and skull) No. iOfi.SOL United States Na- 

 tional Museum. Collected at Ziiberwano-en, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 

 December L 1!»00, by Ernst H. Zollikofer. Ori.i-iual number, 192. 



Characters. — Form, dentition, and g'eneral ap- 

 pearance as in Crocidura rnssula, but size con- 

 spicuously less (hind foot only 12 (11), greatest 

 length of skull Ki instead of 19-21). 



Color. — Entire dorsal surface sepia, faintly 

 darker over lumbar region, the hairs showing 

 bright silvery reflections when held in certain 

 lights. Underparts dull ochraceous-bulT, not 

 sharply eontrasted with color of sides. Chin 

 whitish. The bases of the hairs are everywhere 

 blackish slate, but this color does not appear at 

 surface except irregularly and indistinctly on 

 belly. Feet yellowish white. Tail ochraceous- 

 butf, its upper surface tinged with sepia. 



-w^Sl&J V 



Fig. 1.— a. Crocidura 

 rmsula, b. C. iidmula 

 (natural size). 



*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



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