468 On a new Shrew from the And iman Islands. 



tliaii in male, and with a black spot at base of posterior part 

 of soft dorsal and another on upper part of base of caudal. 

 Two specimens, 140 and 175 mm. in total length. 



It is of great interest to note that of the four species 

 described by Carmichael from Tristan da Cunha two occur 

 also at St. Paul, an island in the same latitude but 4500 miles 

 distant, whilst the other two lire represented at St. Paul by- 

 related species. None of the four genera is known from the 

 islands to the south, Kerguelen and Marion Island, and only 

 one (^Chilodacti/lus) from the Cape, a little to the north ; but 

 all are represented on the coasts of Chile, New Zealand^ and 

 Southern Australia. 



LIU. — A neio Shrew from the Andaman Islands. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Crocidura ht'spida, sp. n. 



A large Crocidura with semi-spinous fur and long tail. 



Size about as in the large Nicobar and Andaman Crocidurce 

 described by Miller, therefore corispicuously larger than in 

 other Crocidurce of the East Indies, where the other large 

 shrews are Pachyurce., Form slender, limbs apparently long 

 in proportion to the size of the body. Fur much stifFer than 

 in any known shrews, the hairs more or less spinous and 

 many of them flattened, as in spinous rodents ; those on the 

 back about 8 mm. in length. General colour grey, with a 

 brownish wash, apparently (so far as can be judged in a spirit- 

 specimen) not unlike the other large Eastern shrews. Hands 

 and feet white. Tail slender, longer than head and body, 

 well clothed, with many long bristly hairs, its short hairs the 

 diameter of two to three tail-rings in length, brown above, 

 whitish below. Lateral glands well defined, nearer the 

 elbows than the hips. 



Skull without marked peculiarities. Pterygoid region as 

 in typical Crocidurce'^. First unicuspid slightly larger than 

 the third, which in turn is about the same degree larger 

 than the second. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the spirit-speci- 

 men) : — 



Head and body 85 mm. ; tail 103 : hind foot 255 ; 

 ear 13. 



* (/. Tho3. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xi. p. 320 (1913). 



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