Mammals from Northern Persia. 197 



2. Pipistrellas pipistrellus, Sclir. 

 S. 118. Soutli coast of Caspian. 150'. 



3. Pterygistes 7ioctula, Sclir. 

 c? . 134, 135. Resht, S. coast of Caspian. 



4. Myotis myoHotis, Bechst. 



(?. 132; ?.131. Elburz Mts., near Resht. 400'. 



5. Miniopterus Schreibersi pallidus, sub^p. n. 



?. 113. South coast of Caspian. Alt. —25 m. 25rh 

 March, 19o7. B.M. no. 7. 7. 14. 7. Type. 



Simihu' to typical 21. iSchreibersi in all essential respects, 

 but the general colour is paler, approximating to Ridgway's 

 " wood-brown," while Schreihersi is rather darker than 

 " broccoli-brown." Below, the colour, smoky gi'ey in 

 Schreibersi, is more or less suffused with bufFy, especially in 

 the inguinal region and along the proximal edge of the 

 interfemoral. 



Dimensions of the type (the starred measurements taken 

 in the flesh) : — 



Forearm 46*5 mm. 



*Head and body 55 ; *tail 57; *ear 12. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 15 ; basisinual length 12 ; 

 mastoid breadth 9. 



All the European ]\Iiniopteri in the Museum collection are 

 quite similar in colour and equally different from this pale 

 Caspian example. 



6. Crocidura russula caspica, subsp. n. 



^. 106. South coast of Caspian Sea. Alt. —25 m. 

 16th March, 1907. B.M. no. 7. 7. 14. 8. Type. 



Like 6'. russula monacha^ Thos.tj hut larger, with shorter 

 tail and darker belly. 



Size markedly larger than in monacha. Greneral colour 

 above of exactly the same smoky brown as in that animal, 

 but below it is even darker, being, in fact, of a brown very 

 little lighter than the upper side. Tail of normal russula 

 proportions, therefore much shorter than in monacha. 



Skull large, stouter and heavier than in true russula, there- 

 fore much larger than in monacha, whose skull little exceeds 



t From the neijj:libourhood of Trebizond. Aim. & Mag. Nut. Hist. (7) 

 xvii. p. 417 (1900). 



