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Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 64 mm. ; tail 38 ; hind foot 12. 



Skull: condvlo-incisive length 19'2; condylo-basal length 

 18'1 ; greatest breadth 9 ; upper tooth-row 8 ; front of i^ to 

 front of p* 3*7 ; front of i?* to back of w- 4 ; breadth between 

 outer corners of 7n^ 4"6. 



Hab, (of type). 46 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. 



Ti/pe. Adult female. B.M. no. 12. 8. 5. 13. Original 

 number 56. Collected 23rd September, 1911. 



This species connects the Korean S. annexus with the 

 Central-Asian S. centralis. It is much paler in colour than 

 the former and has not the lengthened muzzle of the latter. 

 While the skulls of all three are of about the same bulk, the 

 muzzle, as measured from the front of p^ to the front of the 

 large incisors, is in S. annexus 3*5 mm., S. cansulus 3'7 mm., 

 and S. centralis 4'2 mm. 



4, Sorex wardi^ Thos. 



(?. 42, 43, 45; ?. 46. 42 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. 

 10,000'. 



c?. 58, 63, 64. 46 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. 10,000'. 



? . 29. 30 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. 9000'. 



In summer pelage. The type, which is in winter pelage, 

 came from 10 miles S. of Tao-chou. 



5. Chodsigoa lajnula, sp. n. 



c?. 66. 40 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. Alt. 9500'. 1st 

 October, 1911. B.M. no. 12. 8. 5. 22. Ti/pe. 



" Picked up on path in forest.'" — J. A. C. S. 



Allied to C. hypsihia, but smaller. 



General proportions and comparative length of tail about 

 as in C, hypsihia., but size decidedly less. Fur close and soft ; 

 hairs of back about 3"5 mm. in length. General colour above 

 " mouse-grey," scarcely paler below. Hands and feet white, 

 a slightly darker shade edging the latter externally. Tail 

 greyish above, glossy whitish below. 



Skull smaller than in C. hypsihia, its interorbital region 

 even lower and flatter than in that species. 

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