XX. ON TWO NEW PYGMY SHREWS FROM 

 THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



By C. Boden Kloss, F.Z.S. 



Crocidura GRAVIDA, Sp. 110V. 



Type (and only specimen examined): — Adult male 

 (skin and skull), F.M.S. Mus. No. 79/17. Collected on Pulau 

 Dayang Bunting,* Langkawi Islands, West Coast Malay 

 Peninsula, on 8th Dec. 1916, b}' H. C. Robinson. 



Diagnosis: — About the same size as C. klossi, Robinson, of 

 the Redang Islands, Trengganu (C. major, Kloss, preoccupied) I 

 but tail longer and colour much less brow 11 : the greyest of all 

 the known shrews from the Peninsula region. Colour not to 

 be exactly matched by any of Ridgway's examples (Colour 

 Standards and Nomenclature) but nearest to dark Quaker 

 drab, with a tinge of brown strongest anteriorly; rather paler 

 below. 



Measurements: — See table on p. 128. 



Crocidura tionis, sp. nov. 



Type-.—k&uli female (skin and skull) F.M.S. Mus. 

 No. 881/15. Collected on Tioman Island, East Coast Malay 

 Peninsula, on 1st July, 1915, by H. C. Robinson. 



Diagnosis: — About the same colour as C. klossi but 

 smaller; about the same size as C. ncgligens, Robinson and 

 Kloss, of Koh Samui near Bandon, East Coast Malay Penin- 

 sula J but browner. General colour effect of upper parts 

 Benzo brown (Ridgway), the hairs having deep neutral grey 

 bases and brown tips: below paler and nearly neutral grey 

 slightly tinged with brownish mesially. 



Measurements: — See table on p. 128. 



Specimens examined: — Five, all from the type locality 



* Pregnant Damsel Island. 



I Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii, p. 117 (1911); fourn. F. M. S. Mus., 

 <r, p. 194 (1911). 



; Ann and Mag. Nat HUt. (8) xiii, p. 232 (1914); Journ. F. M. S. Mus.. 

 . P- 133 (i9M)- 



