Color. Upper parts uniform slate black, darker below; lacks 

 the sepia brown tint of B. h. carolintnsis. 



Measurements. Total length, 97; tail vertebrae, 20; hind foot, 

 I3-5- 



568. telmalestes. (Blarina), Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. 10, 1895, p. 

 15, pi. ii, fig. 5. 



Type locality. Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Virginia. 



Geogr. Distr. Dismal Swamp, Virginia. 



Genl. Char. Similar to B. brevuaicda, skull narrower; anterior 

 nares less thickened. 



Color. Uniform dark plumbeous or slate gray above and below, 

 slightly darker on the rump and nose; feet and tail blackish. 



Measurements. Totallength, 118; tail vertebrae, 28; hind foot, 16. 



I. Oryptotis. 



FiG. 75. Blarina (Cryptotis) parva. 



No. 938 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Coll. 



Skull enlarged 2?i times. Tooth rows enlarged 7 times. 



569. parva. (Sorcx), Say, in Long's Exped. to Rocky Mts., 1823, 



vol. I, p. 164. 

 cinereus, Bachm., Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, vii, p. 373, 



pi. xxiii, fig. 3. 

 exilipes, Baird, N. Am. Mamm., 1857, p. 51. 

 eximius, Baird, N. Am. Mamm., 1857, p. 52. 



