432 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XI. 



(/. <:., p. 604). Specimens have been taken in open woodland in south- 

 em Illinois in much the same localities as are frequented by B. caroli- 

 nensis. 



Specimens examined from Illinois : 

 Illinois — Olive Branch, Alexander Co., 10; Reevesville, Johnson Co., 



2; Warsaw, Hancock Co., 3; (O.) Charleston, Coles Co., 2 = 17. 



Map showing supposed range of the Small Short-tailed Shrews belonging to the subgenus CryPtotis 



in eastern United States. 



Blarina parva (Say). Type locality — West bank of Missouri River, near Blair 

 (3 miles above mouth of Boyer River), Nebraska. Description as previously 

 given. 



Blarina floridana Merriam. (N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 19, PI. I.) Type 

 locality — Chester Shoal, 11 miles north of Cape Canaveral, Brevard Co., 

 Florida. Similar to parva, but larger; also cranial differences. 



