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long on the back in summer specimens. General colour 

 uniform greyish brown, with scarcely any tendency to a 

 tricolor pattern ; under surface drab-brown. Hands and feet 

 brownish white. Tail long, slightly pencilled at the tip, 

 brown above, lighter below. 



Skull large, with long muzzle ; brain-case not specially 

 broadened, 



Unicuspids slightly but evenly decreasing backwards. 

 Concavities behind molars well marked. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 70 mm. ; tail 55 ; hind foot 14. 



Skull : condylo-incisive length 21 ; condylo-basal length 

 203 ; greatest breadth 96 ; upper tooth row 9"1 ; front of 

 i^ to front of p* 4 2 ; front of p^ to back of m^ 45 ; breadth 

 between outer corners of m^ 48. 



Hab. 45 miles S.E. of Feng-siang-fu, Shen-si. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 12. 8. 5, 3. Original num- 

 ber 8. Collected 10th August, 1911. 



This large but rather delicately built shrew has a decidedly 

 longer skull than the other large Eastern plain-coloured 

 species S'. unguiculatiis and shinto. It has nothing of the 

 remarkable development of tooth-pigment characteristic of 

 S. daphcenodon. 



3. So7-ex cansiduSf sp, n. 



c?. 68. 15 milesS.E. ofTao-chou. 8500'. 



? . 56, 65. 46 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. 9800-10,000'. 



S. annexus-centralis group, paler than the former and 

 without the long muzzle of the latter. 



Size as in S. centralis. Fur of back about 4 mm. in 

 length. General colour above greyish brown, about as in 

 S. centralis^ much greyer than in S. anneinis, which verges 

 towards Proufs brown ; sides in one specimen tinged with 

 bufFy, but no definite tricolor pattern present. No trace of a 

 darker dorsal stripe. Under surface drab or broccoli-brown. 

 Hands and feet brownish white. Tail dark brown above, 

 lighter below. 



Skull slightly longer than in S. annextis, its muzzle not 

 specially lengthened as in S. centralis. 



