CROCIDURA 



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outer wall of aiiteorbital canal narrower than in C. Jeucodon, its 

 width scarcely twice that of lachrj-mal foramen. Large upper 

 premolar with high cutting blade and well developed paracone, 

 the form and size of which relatively to main cusp and to third 

 unicuspid are exactly as in C. Icucodon. 



Measurements. — According to measurements made by various 

 collectors, the head and body varies from 55 to 72 mm., tail ' 

 from 28 to 40 mm., and hind foot from 10 to 12 mm. The 

 condylobasal length of skull ranges between 16 '0 and 17 '6 mm., 

 and length of upper tooth-row between 7 • 2 and 8 • mm. 



Remarhs. — Ciocidnra mimiihi differs from the other continental 

 European members of the genus, in its small size, a character in 

 which it is approached by the small races of C. russulu, though 

 not sufficiently to cause any confusion. In addition to the 

 typical form two geographical races have been described, one from 

 south-western France, the other from northern Spain, the 

 status of neither of which is clearl}' understood. 



Crocidura mimula mimula Miller. 



1839. ?? [Crocidura aranea] var. minor de S61ys-Longchamps, Etudes de 



Micromamm., p. 35 (Silesia). 

 1901. Crocidura mimula JMiller, Proc. Biol. Soc, Washington, xiv, p. 95, 



June 27, 1901 (Ziiberwangeu, St. Gallen, Switzerland). Type in 



U.S. National Museum. 



1901. Crocidura antipse Matschie, Sitz.-Ber. Gesellsch. Naturforsch. 



Freunde, Berlin, p. 228, November, 1901 (Siulnita and Barza, 

 Roumania). 



1902. [Crocidura"} minuta Lydekker, Zool. Record, xxxviii (1901), Mamm., 



p. 27 (Accidental renaming of mimula). 

 1910. Crocidura mimula and C.antipai Trouessart, Fauue Mamm. d'Europe, 

 pp. 46, 48. 



Tijpe localitji. — Ziiberwangen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. 



Geographical distribution. — Range of the species from the 

 Rhone Valley eastward. 



Diagnosis. — Size maximum for the species ; skull with brain- 

 case tending to be strictly of the flattened type : colour usually 

 dark. 



Measurements. — External measurements of type : head and 

 body, 72; tail, 33; hind foot, 11. A male and female from 

 Untervatz, Grisons, Switzerland: head and body, 71 and 65; 

 tail, 35 and 35 ; hind foot, 10 and 11. A male and female from 

 Marxheim, Bavaria : head and body, 71 and 58 ; tail, 36 and 30 ; 

 hind foot, 10 and 10. Average and extremes of four specimens 

 from Haida, Arva, Bohemia : head and body, 59 • 7 (55-65) ; 

 tail, 30 (28-32) ; hind foot, 11-5 (11-1 2). A male from Gageni, 

 Roumania, and female from Bustenari, Roumania : head and 

 biuly, 64 and 66 ; tail, 31 and 34; hind foot, 11 and 11. Two 

 adult males from Agay, Var, France : head and body, 64 and 66 : 

 tail, 35 and 34 ; hind foot, 1 1 and 1 1 . Aflult female from 

 Viareggio, Italy : head and body. 70 : tail, 38 ; hind foot, 11 "6. 



