new Manwials from Asia Minor. 69 



N. milleri, Mottaz *, but larger, skull more heavily built, and 

 teeth more robust. 



Colour. — Upperparts a mixture of verj dark vandjke- 

 brown and slate-greyj the hairs with silvery reflections, which 

 produce a noticeable " pepper-and-salt " appearance, more 

 evident in certain lights than in others. Head and anterior 

 halt" of body tinged with hair-brown. Underparts sharply 

 defined pale cream-bufF, irregularly darkened by slate-grey 

 bases of hairs. An elongated buffy-white spot, 5 mm. in 

 greatest diameter, immediately behind eye. Feet bufFy grey, 

 the toes dusky. Tail everywhere covered with short silvery- 

 white hairs, those of ])encil dusky-tinged, the dark skin 

 appearing more noticeably at sui face above than below. 



Skull and teeth. — Aside from its larger size the skull does 

 not differ appreciably from that of lieomys milleri and 

 iV. anomalus, except in the relatively deeper, broader, anterior 

 portion of rostrum. Teeth not peculiar, except in their 

 uniformly greater size and robustness. 



Measurements. — Head and body 88 mm. ; tail 58 ; hind 

 foot 18-5 ; ear 5. Skull : condylo-basal length '22-4: (20-2) f; 

 greatest breadth of brain-case 11*4 (10"G) ; depth of brain- 

 case 6'0 (0*0); mandible, including incisor, 14'4 (13"4:); 

 maxillary tooth-row J O'-i (9-4); mandibular tooth-row 9'4(8-8). 

 Specimen e.xamined. — The type. 



Remarks. — This species is readily distinguishable by its 

 large robust skull. In colour the type is not so dark as 

 average specimens of the European forms, a character which 

 may or may not prove to be of importance. By the discovery 

 of Neomys teres the known range of the round-tailed group 

 of water-shrews is greatly extended to the eastward. 



Muscardinus trapezius, sp. n. 



Type.— Adnh male (skin and skull). B.M. no. (>. 5. 1. 40. 

 Collected at Kliotz, near Trebizond, Turkey in Asia, Feb- 

 ruary 10, 190(3, by A. Robert. Presented by Oidlield Thomas. 

 Urignial number 24:07. 



l)ia<jnosis. — Similar to Muscardinus avellanarius, but 

 skull with audital buUai noticeably smaller and more nearly 

 circular in outline. 



CWour. — Upperparts uniform buffy slate-colour, lightening 



* M(5ra. Soc. Zool. de France, xx. p. 22 (September, ]IK)7). Alpea 

 Vauduises, Switzerland. Altitude ll'30 m. 



t Measuieiiients in parentheses are thi).-;e of an adult male yeomi/s 

 n>wtiiu/us lium Santo Domingo de Silos, rroviiice of Burgos, Spain 

 (no. 7L*lt2G. S. M.). 



