242 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



CROCIDURA COREAE Thomas. 



A single specimen of a small Crocidura was taken by Mr. Zappey at Ichang, 

 Hupeh, which, if not identical with C. coreae is at least very closely related to 

 it. Thomas (1907, p. 860) described the species from material collected at 

 Min-gyong, 110 miles southeast of Seoul, Korea. Later he (1908a, p. 639) 

 reported specimens from the Imperial Tombs, 65 miles east of Pekin, China. 

 Our specimen appears to extend its known range south into the Yangtze valley. 

 It was taken January 24, 1908, is broccoli-brown above, slightly mixed with 

 grayish, below pale ecru-drab, tail colored like the body. As stated by Thomas 

 the longer bristly hairs of the tail are numerous and extend nearly to the tip. 

 The ears are prominent and minutely haired. Its measurements are as follows, 

 with those of the type corresponding in parentheses: total length, 98 mm. (95) ; 

 tail, 40 (37); hind foot, 13 (11.5). Skull, greatest length, 17.5 (17.5); basal 

 length, 15.5 (15.1) ; mastoid width, 7.7 (8.2) ; width outside second upper molars, 

 5.3; mandible from condyle to tip of incisor, 10.8; upper tooth row, 7.9 (7.8); 

 lower tooth row, 7.0. 



ERINACEIDAE. 



ERINACEUS ? HANENSIS Matschie. 



I have provisionally referred to this newly named species a skin with skull 

 from Ichang, Hupeh. The single specimen on which Professor Matschie bases 

 the species came from Hankow, about 175 miles farther east in the same province. 

 The original description contains little that is particularly diagnostic, and the 

 distinction is based wholly on color. The spines are said to be of two sorts, 

 whitish and light brown, the latter with long, dark horn-colored tips. These 

 spines are about 25 mm. long. The color of the ventral side, of the head and 

 of the limbs is a deep hair-brown, sprinkled with gray hairs on the sides of the 

 .body, on the limbs, breast, flanks, cheeks, chin, and nose. The claws are dark 

 horn-color. The ears are dark and very small. 



Our specimen is apparently immature though probably nearly full grown. 

 The wholly white spines are more numerous near the periphery of the spiny area, 

 but occur also in the mid-dorsal region, where there are a few wholly dark spines 

 of nearly a broccoli-brown. Most of the spines are of a similar color at the base 

 with a sub terminal white band and a brown tip. The hair of the lower surfaces, 

 head, and limbs is stiff and rather sparse but instead of being hair-brown is very 

 pale vinaceous buff, darker on the forehead and the upper surfaces of the feet. 



