PACHYURA SEMMELINKI. 213 



NOTE XLI. 



ON A NEAV SHREW 

 FROM THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



BY 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



August L889. 



I have to add a new species to the series of Shrews 

 discussed and described by me in the Notes from the Ley- 

 den Museum, 1888, p. 161, and I previously named it 

 Pachyura semmelinki in my Catalogue systématique des 

 Mammifères, 1888, p. 257. I now proceed to describe it 

 as follows. 



Pachyura semmelinki, n. sp. 



Fur rather long for a Shrew; the base of the hairs 

 mouse-color, the hairs of head and upperparts of body 

 tipped with maroon , those of the belly with light brown. 

 Hairs of hands , feet and tail maroon. 



Tail conical, very hairy so that the scales are hardly 

 visible; elongated hairs are widely set along the whole tail. 

 Muzzle swollen. 



Upper jaw: posterior hook of first incisor as high as 

 the fourth tooth; this latter is unicuspidate and is about 

 four fifth of the size attained by the second also unicus- 

 pidate tooth; third unicuspidate and about two thirds of 

 the fourth ; fifth unicuspidate very small and hardly visible 

 from without. 



Lower jaw: first incisor with a small denticulation ; se- 

 cond unicuspidate and about two thirds of the height of 

 the third unicuspidate which attains the height of the 

 posterior cusp of the first molar. 



All the teeth are white. 



Notes from the JLieyden Museum , "Vol. XI. 



