2,6 descriptive: account of 



Dimensions: — Head and body (c.) ii6 millims ; tail i6 ; 

 hind foot 25. 



Since all the five or six specimens of Hylomys obtained on 

 Kina Balu show a black dorsal line, sometimes, it is true, faint 

 and indistinct, but always present, Mr. Thomas believes this to 

 be a valid geographical race, characteristic at least of Mount 

 Kina Balu, if not of the whole of Borneo. It should be stated 

 that Dr. F. A. Jentink, of the Leyden museum, where the 

 type of H. snillus is preserved, believes it to be not worthy of 

 separation from that animal. 



The true Ilv/onivs siiil/iis has been recorded from Burma, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Ja\a. 



F A M I L Y S \l I C I D .E . 



G E N U S C^ 11 C 1 1) U \l A . 



CROCIDURA FULTGINOSA. 



Crocidura fuliginosa^ Blyth, J.A.vS.B., xxiv., p. 362. 



This is the common shrew of the low country, which is 

 constantly found dead in the middle oF the road. It ascends the 

 mountains to the height of 2000-ft. Upper teeth 16. Size 

 rather small. Muzzle thinly clad. Ears large, n-arly naked. 

 Feet thinly clad above. Tail long, three fourth the length of 

 the head and body, or more, sub-cylindrical, sn^xy gently taper- 

 ing (except in the rutting-season, when the basal portion is 

 thickened), nearly naked, being thinly clad with very short 

 hair, amongst which a few longer hairs are interspersed in the 

 basal half only. 



Colour — Bluey slate above and below. Tail thin with a 

 few longer hairs at the base. 



Hab. Kina Balu (J. Whitehead). (A. Everett)). 



CROCIDURA MONTICOLA. 



Crocidnra nionticola Pet. ? 

 Hab. Sarawak (A. Everett). 



CROCIDURA HOSEI. 



Crocidnra hosci, Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 

 vol. xi., 1893. See plate. 



Size very small, scarcely exceeding that of the minute Indian 

 species C. pcrottcti, hod/^soni, &c., and belonging evidently to 

 the same group, which has not hitherto been recorded from the 

 Malay region. Fur close, crisp, and veh'ety. Colour deep 

 smoky grey, finely grizzled with whitish ; belly rather paler ; 

 ears, feet, and tail dark brown. Tail very short and slender, 

 closely haired, with a few longish hairs as usual scattered among 

 the shorter ones. 



