CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 175 



181816. Skin and skull. Adult female. Lakiundu River, near its 

 junction with the Northern Guaso Nyiro River, British East 

 Africa [ = Kenya]. July 12, 1911. Collected by Edmund 

 Heller. Original number 1986. 

 Well-made skiu in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Genus CRYPTOTIS Pomel 

 fBlarina alticola Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 10: 27, Dec. 31, 1895. 

 =Crpptotis alticola (Merriam). See Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79: 27, 

 Dec. 31, 1912. 



52047. Skin and skull. Adult male. Mount Popocatepetl, altitude 

 11,500 feet, State of Mexico, Mexico. February 25, 1893. Col- 

 lected by E. W. Nelson. Original number 4396. 

 Well-made skiu in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



*Blarina berlandieri Baird. Lectotype. 



Mammals of North America, p. 53, 1857. 

 = Cruptofis berlandieri (Baird). See Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79: 25, Dec. 



31, 1912. 

 2159. In alcohol, skull removed April 1936. Vicinity of Matamoros, 



Tamaulipas, Mexico. Probably collected by J. L. Berlandier. 



Received from D. N. Couch. Cataloged February 14, 1857. 



Body in good condition except for some loss of hair on belly ; skull Grade 

 A. Baird's figure of the skull was made from one of the paratypes. 



No type was designated by Baird. He listed four specimens of which 

 2159 was figured on pi. 28. This was made lectotype by Lyon and Osgood, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 62 : 237, Jan. 28, 1909. 



'^Blarina exilipes Baird. Lectotype. 



Mammals of North America, p. 51, 1857. 



= Cryptotis parva (Say). See Merriam, North Amer. Fauna 10: 17, Dec. 31, 

 1895. 



2157. In alcohol, skull removed April 1936. Washington, Adams 

 County, Miss. Collected by B. L. C. Wailes. Cataloged Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1857. 



Specimen rather the worse for loss of hair on the posterior parts of the 

 body; skull Grade B. 



Baird's figure of the skull was made from one of the paratypes. No type 

 was designated by Baird. He listed eight specimens, of which No. 2157 

 was figured on pi. 28. This was made lectotype by Lyon and Osgood, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 62: 237, Jan. 28, 1909. 



fBlarina floridana Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 10 : 19, Dec. 31, 1895. 

 =Cryptotis floridana (Merriam). See Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79: 25, 

 Dec. 31, 1912. 



