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INSECTIVORA 



Genoa, Italy : head and body, 41 and -Ir'i ; tail, 26 and 28 ; hind 

 foot, 7 • 6 and 8 * 0. Adult female from vSassari, 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) ; Parti, Fiiialborgo, 2 (Genoa) ; near 

 Genoa, 5 (U.S.N.M. and Genoa) ; Pisa, 5 (B.M. and Mottaz) ; Florence, 6 

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



Sicily : No exact locality, 2. 



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



Greece : Lamia, 1. 



Genus CROCIDURA Wagler. 



1832. Crocidiira Wagler, Isis, p. 275 (Sorex leucodon Hermann). 



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



1869. Leucodon Patio, Faune Vert. Suisse, i, p. 132 (substitute for 



Crocidura). 

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



Gesammtb. Naturwiss., xiv, p. 90 {Sorex leucoclon Hermann and 



S. arancus Schreber = S. russulus Hermann). 



Tijpe species. — Sorex leucodon Hermann. 



GeograpMcal distribution. — Africa and warmer portions of 

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

 north to northern Holland and central Germany, west to the 

 Atlantic coast and the Channel Islands. Absent from Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



Characters. — Upper unicuspid teeth 3-3 (dental formula : 

 ^ lE'i' ^ 111' J"'^ i5i' "^ |E| = 28 ; 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 rudimentary second 

 cusp and commissure ; teeth white throughout ; skull heavier and 

 more robust than in Sore.v and Neomys, 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 lather heavy ; ear rising noticeabh^ 



* (5, 2 ?. Marismas, Lower Guadal- A. Chapman (c & p). 11.12.19.1-3. 

 quivir, Spain. 

 Received December, 1911. — 0. T. 



