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talon to the basal cusp of each upper anterior incisor. The outer 

 upper incisors are larger than the canines. The anterior lower 

 incisors are long and their points turn upwards; they are not 

 serrated above. 



Colour dark slaty, faintly washed with brownish rusty on the 

 hairs of the rump ; the longer hairs brown, with obscure pale tips. 

 Snout, limbs, and tail flesh-coloured; claws yellow. The t'ur 

 exhibits violet iridescence when wet. 



Dimensions of a female : snout to vent 2-92 inches, tail 0-5, 

 basal length of skull 0-92. Another specimen is 3-1 inches from 

 snout to vent, tail 0-5, hind foot without claws O62. 



Distribution. The only specimens known (a female and young) 

 were obtained by Mr. S. E. Peal between Sibsagar and Jaipur, in 

 Assam. 



Habits. This is probably from its structure a burro wer, with 

 habits similar to those of a mole. 



An allied species, A. squamipes, the type of the genus, occurs in 

 Eastern Tibet and Se-chuan. In this the tail is still shorter than 

 in the Assam form. 



Genus CHIMARROGALE, Anderson (1877). 



Form adapted for an aquatic life. Ear-conch present but small. 

 Feet scaly, broad, with a fringe of short coarse flat white hairs 

 along their margins and on each side of every toe. Toes not 



Fig. 69. Anterior upper teeth of Chimarrogale himalayica. (Dobson, 

 Mon. Ins., unpublished.) 



webbed. Tail long, the under surface covered with white hairs, 

 similar to those that fringe the feet. 



Teeth white. Dentition: i. ?=|, c. i=-\ pm. g, m. gj=28, 

 as in Crocidura. 



Two species are known, one being found in the Himalayas. 

 The osteology is described by Anderson in his Anatomical and 

 Zoological Researches.' 



131. Chimarrogale himalayica. The Himalayan Water-Shrew. 

 Crossopu-s himalayicus, Gray, A. M. N. H. x, p. 261 (1842) ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 37 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. GO. 

 Crocidura hiinalaica, Anderton, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 231. 



