On a new Shreio and Two new Foxes. 119 



white hiir. l)iit vei'tex with fiisoons liair ; mosothorax 

 elevated and gil)I)ous in front, dull anteriorly, polished on 

 disc, with strong scattered punctnres ; scntellura polished, 

 very sparsely punctured in middle ; area of metathoraK 

 semilunar, sharply defined, with numerous longitudinal 

 rugre. Wings slightly dusky, stigma piceous, nervnres sepia ; 

 second submargiual cell variable in width ; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi with shinin": white hair on inner side. Abdomen 

 rather short, polished, with the punctures excessively minute, 

 and no hair-bands or patches on dorsal surface ; on the 

 ventral side there is a broad band of white tomentum across 

 the middle of the abdomen. 

 ? . — Length fully 8 mm. 



More robust, the broad face wholly black ; mesothorax 

 strongly and closely punctured on disc, but scutellum with 

 two large polished impunctate areas ; middle and hind tibite 

 and tarsi brownish. 



Launceston, Tasmania, Sept. 19, 1916 {F. M. Littler), t^o 

 males. The female was taken at Launceston, April 18, 

 1916. 



Much smaller than P. dissimulator, Ckll., which it resem- 

 bles in many respects. The male has a very strong super- 

 ficial resemblance to Halictus spenceri, Ckll. 



X. — A new Shreio and Two neio Foxes from Asia Minor 

 and Palestine. By Oldfield Thomas. 



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



In working out some mammals obtained by Major Maurice 

 Portal during the Palestine campaign, and presented by him 

 to the National Museum, I have found the three following 

 forms to need special names : — 



Crocidura portali, sp. n. 



Most nearly allied to the Central Asiatic species C. ilensis; 

 widely different from the European forms of the genus. 



Size small, though not excessively so. General colour clear 

 pale grey, rather paler than " drab-giey " if the darker tips 

 to the hairs are included, but it may be better described as 

 "pale drab-grey" overlaid witli the fine brown hair-tips 

 which slightly darken it. Under surface creamy white, the 



