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INSECTIVOEA 



Genoa, Italj- : head and body, 41 and 42 : tail, 26 and 28 ; hind 

 foot, 7 • 6 and 8 • 0. Adult female from Hassari, Sardinia : head 

 and body, 41 ; tail, 29 ; hind foot, 7*8. For cranial measure- 

 ments see Table, p. 85. 



Specimens examined. — Twenty-nine, from the following localities : — 



Italy : Near Turin, 2 (Genoa) ; Perti, Finalborgo, 2 (Genoa) ; near 

 Genoa, 5 (U.S.N.M. and Genoa) ; Pisa, 5 (B.il. and Mottaz) ; Florence, G 

 (Li .S.N.M. and JMottaz) ; Tuscany, 2 ; Rome, 1 (Genoa) ; no exact locality, 2. 



Sicily : No exact locality, 2. 



Saedinia: Assuni, 1 (U.S.N.M.). No exact locality. 1. 



Greece : Lamia, 1. 



Genus CROCIDURA Wagler. 



1832. Crocidiira Wagler, Isis, p. 275 (Soivx leucudun Hermann). 



1857. CrocidiDxi Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 137. 



1869. Leucodan Fatio, Faune Vert. Suisse, i, p. 132 (substitute for 



Crocidura). 

 1897. Paurodus Schulze, Mamm. Europ., in Helios, Abhandl. u. Vortrage 



Gesammtb. Naturwiss., xiv, p. 90 (Sorcx Icucodon Hermann and 



iS'. arnncus Schreber = .S'. russulus Hermann). 



Ti/pe species. — Sorex leucodon Hermann. 



GeograjjJiical disirihufion. — Africa and warmer portions of 

 Europe and Asia, including the Malay Archijjelago ; in Europe, 

 north to northern Holland and central (Germany, west to the 

 Atlantic coast and the Channel Islands. Ab.sent from Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



Characters. — Upper uuicusjjid teeth o-o (dental formula : 

 ' ^ '» ^ il'' i"'* ^' ™ %Er — '^^ '■> posterior lobe of upper incisor 

 noticeably less than half as high as main cusp ; anterior lower 

 incisor without lobes on cutting edge ; third lower molar with hypo- 

 conid and entoconid coalesced, so that form of tooth is strikingly 

 different from that of other molars, its crown 4-cusped instead 

 of 5-cusped ; second lower unicuspid without I'udimentary second 

 cusj) and commissure ; teeth white throughout ; skull lieavier and 

 more robust than in Sore.v and Neomijs, with conspicuously deeper 

 rostrum and less contrast between width of brain-case and that 

 of anterior portion ; rudimentary zygomatic process of maxillary 

 obsolete; external form rather heavy; ear rising noticeably 



* <^, 2 9. Marismas, Lower Guadal- A. Chapman (c & p). 11.12.19.1-3. 

 quivir, Spain. 

 Received December, 1911. — 0. T. 



