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NOTE XV. 



ON A NEW VERY SMALL SHREW FROM MAYOTTE , 



CROCIDURA (PACHYURA) COaUERELII, POLLEN 



AND VAN DAM, MS. 



Dr. E. L. TROUESSART. 



March 1880- 



The Insectivora from Madagascar generally belong to 

 forms which are quite distinct from each other, such as 

 the genera Centetes , Oryzoryctes , Geogale , etc. , and which 

 have now become the types of separate families and sub- 

 families. Up to 1848 the large group of Shrews, Soricidae, 

 was looked upon as not inhabiting either Madagascar or 

 the little adjoining islands. At that time Mr. Cli. Co- 

 querel , Surgeon in the French Navy , published a good 

 description and figures of Sorex madagascariensis ^) , a 

 very small Shrew, which he had discovered at Nossi-Be, on the 

 N. W. Coast of Madagascar. Later in 1855 Dr. Leop. 

 Fitzinger briefly described as Pachyura auriculata ^) , a 

 much larger Shrew brought home by Mad. Ida Pfeiffer from 

 her travels in Madagascar. But this species does not differ 

 in any essential character from P. serpentaria Is. Geoffr., 



1) Ann, dcs Sc. Nat. Zoölogie, 3e Série, IX, 1848, p. 193. pi. 2. 



2) S. B. der Math. Naturw. Class, der Kais. Akad. der Wiss. Wien, Bd. 

 XXXI, 1855, p. 342; and Bd. LVII, 1868, p. 145 (separata, .sub tit: 

 Kritische Unters. iiber Spitzmiiuse , etc. le Abth. p. 25. 



Notes Irom the Leyilen ^luseuni , "Vol. H. 



