162 THE MALAYAN SHREWS, 



Professor Peters described iu the » Monatsberichte , 1870" 

 the following new species: Croddura foetida from Borneo, 

 Cr. doriae from Borneo, Cr. monticola from Java, and 

 Pachyura sumatrana from Sumatra. 



Dr. Trouessart created a new species, Crocidura edward- 

 siana , based upon two immature female specimens from 

 the islands in the Soulou- Archipelago (Le Naturaliste , 1880). 



Dr. Dobson published in the »Annali del Museo Civico 

 di Genova, 1887", descriptions of two new species from 

 Sumatra , Crocidura paradoxura and Cr. beccarii. 



Up to this day no other species have been mentioned , 

 as far as I am aware. 



Pallas relates nothing as to the origin of his Sore.v myo- 

 surus, but it may be a species from the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago or not, the species called S. myosurus in the 

 )) Verhandelingen" as being found nearly in all the East- 

 Indian Islands is certainly not Pallas' species : it has a much 

 shorter tail and is for the rest a much larger animal 

 than /S. myosurus Pallas. It agrees very well and I be- 

 lieve it identical with Sorex indicus Geoffroy, described 

 in the ))Annales du Muséum, 1811" and figured in the 

 » Mémoires du Muséum, 1815". 



In our collection are three specimens of a Shrew under 

 the name Sorex tenuis Muller, two stuffed and one in 

 alcohol : they are from Timor. One of the stuffed specimens 

 agrees with the short description in the » Verhandelingen" : 

 the two other specimens differ from tenuis as well as from 

 one another in dentition, color and size: they belong to 

 two different species and will be described hereafter. 



Other undescribed species in our Museum are from Su- 

 matra, collected by S. Muller, from Java by S. Muller, 

 from Banka procured by Vosmaer, and from Ternate pre- 

 sented by van Musschenbroek. The geographical distribu- 

 tion of the Malayan Shrews is thus as follows: . 



Sumatra. 



Pachyura indica Geoffroy. 

 » sumatrana Peters. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. X. 



