S6 CRÖCIDURA (pACHYURA) COQUERELII. 



a Shrew not uncommon in India and Ceylon, which also 

 inhabits Mauritius (He de France) where it was imported 

 by vessels. It has most probably been brought to Mada- 

 gascar in the same way. As to Sorex madogascariensis 

 Coquerel , a species very distinct from all others , already 

 known, the case is quite different. This species together 

 with Sorex etruscus Savi , from South -Europe and North- 

 Africa , with S. gracilis de Blainv. , from South-Africa , 

 and with the species about to be described , constitutes a 

 small group of diminutive forms in the subgenus Pachyura. 

 This group is apparently limited to the Occidental part 

 of the Ethiopian region and includes the smallest Mam- 

 mals hitherto known. 



CROCIDURA (PACHYURA) COQUERELII u. sp. 



Color of the fur quite uniform : above and beneath light 

 rufous brown , each hair being sandy-grey near its base 

 and tipped with shining red , by no means paler inferiorly. 

 The size and proportions of the body , the shape of 

 head and tail agree with those of C. (F.) etrusca; only 

 the color and the teeth are different. 



Measures of the only specimen preserved in alcohol. 



m. m. 



Total length 67 



Head and body 40 



Tail 27 



Tip of snout to eye 5 



Eye to ear 3 



Breadth of ear 4 



Vertical opening of earconch 5 



Height of earconch backwards 2 



Longest whiskers 13 



Hind foot 7 



Skull (appoximatively) 12 



Head Avith its skin 14 



Head large; nose terminated by a little blackisli bare 



JSotew from the Leyden ^«►;eii«Ti , A'ol. II, 



