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is about the same as the lowlands Pygmy House Shrews, it may 
not be very closely related. 
A third group currently placed in Suncus, although ex- 
ternally like the Crocidura dracula group, is reputed to exist in 
the mountainous parts of eastern India and Burma. Its named 
members are S. soccatus and S. nemorivagns from Nepal, and 
S. heterodon from the Khasia Hills. It is barely possible that 
when the type specimens of these Shrews are critically re- 
examined they may be found to lack the small unicuspid tooth 
which if present would keep them in Suncus, and if absent 
would place them in Crocidura, or they may be continental 
relatives of Suncus of the Philippines. The color, dimensions, 
and geographical ranges of these forms agree well with the 
above-mentioned group of Crocidura. S. soccatus is said to have 
strongly tumid upper lips, a character given by Taylor for the 
insular palawanensis, large ears, and depressed head. 
The True White-toothed Shrews, genus Crocidura, though 
represented in eastern Asia by many more forms than Suncus, 
include neither such extremely large nor such extremely small 
species. Only two of them — C. aoris of the east coast of the 
Malay Peninsula and C. yamashinai of north Korea — have the 
length of the head and body as much as 4 inches. The smallest 
Asiatic members of the genus are C. umbrina of Japan and 
C. longicauda of Korea, with length of head and body respec- 
tively 2 and 2% inches. The majority of the species and races 
have the tail but slightly shorter than the head and body. Ex- 
ceptions are the above-mentioned C. yamashinai and C. pullata 
from Kashmir, in both of which the tail measures less than half 
the head and body length. 
In the northern group containing C, dzi~nezumi and umbrina 
of Japan, lasiura of Ussuri, lar from Mongolia, sibirica, corecz, 
longicauda, thomasi, and sodyi, the last four from Korea, the 
tail length is equal to or slightly more than half of the length 
of head and body. C, lar is reputed to be a northern offshoot of 
