BLARINA. NOTIOSOREX. 385 



Type locality. Near Blair, Nebraska, west bank of Missouri 

 River. 



Geogr. Distr. Atlantic coast to eastern Nebraska and Texas. 



Genl. Char. Smallest of United States species; last upper uni- 

 cuspid usually not visible from outside; upper molars deeply exca- 

 vated posteriorly. 



Color. Above sepia to dark hair brown; beneath ash gray. Tail 

 above sepia, below ash gray. 



Measurements. Total length, average, 79; tail, vertebr;c, 16; 

 hind foot, 10.6. 



570. floridana. {Blarina), Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. lo, 1895, p. 19, 



pi. i, fig. 7. 



Type locality. Chester Shoal, 11 miles north of Cape Canaveral, 

 Brevard County, Florida. 



Geogr. Distr. Peninsular Florida, south of latitude 29^. 



Genl. Char. "Similar to B. parva, but larger, with longer skull, 

 whiter teeth, and larger molars, which are less deeply emarginate 

 posteriorly." 



Color. Winter Pelage. Above iron gray, beneath paler. 



Summer Pelage. Inclined to sepia. 



Measurements. Average from two specimens from type locality. 

 Total length, 89; tail vertebra-, 22; hind foot, 12. (Merriam, 1. c.) 



9G. Notiosorex. 



I. y=l-, C. !=i; p. — ; M. t:- = 28. 

 2—2' 0-0' I— i' 3-3 



Notiosorex, Baird, in Coues Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv., 

 1877, p. 646. Type Sorcx crawfordi, Baird. 



Third unicuspid half the size of second; all narrow at base, inner 

 side without secondary cusplet; anterior teeth orange at tips; molars 

 white, cranium flat, rounded on sides; tail short, not half as long as 

 head and body. 



571. crawfordi. {Soriw), Baird, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv., 



1877, iii, p. 657. 



Type locality. Fort Bliss, New Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern Texas to southern California. 



Genl. Char. Size small; ears larj,'e, conspicuous; hind feet and 

 tail short; other characters same as those of the genus. 



Color. Above olive gray; beneath whitish; tail bicolor agreeing 

 above and below with the hues of the body. 



