168 BLARINA PYRRHONOTA. 
All the teeth heavily tipped with dark chestnut. 
The posterior part of the skull being smashed | cannot 
give measurements of it. Very striking is the long and 
slender angular process of the lower jaw, still more slender 
than the same part f.i. in our common shrew. 
Length of head and body about 80 mm., that of tail 
without pencil about 36 mm., pencil 4 mm., hind foot 
13.5 mm. 
Upperparts of head and body of a beautiful mahogany 
brown, the base of the hairs of a bluish black; this fine 
color of the back grows lighter along the flanks to pass 
over on the belly in a much lighter brownish shade, the 
base of the hairs, however, are of the mentioned bluish 
black color. Tail of a brown color, ending in a blackish 
brown pencil. All the hairs of head and body very soft 
and rather short, those of the tail adpressed and | 
stiff; the pencil decidedly stiff. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX Xi. 
