234 DR. J. ANDERSON ON ASIATIC SHREWS. [Mar. 4, 



indicate that it is fully grown. If it should prove to be new, I would 

 indicate it as Pachyura assamensis. 



Jerdon, under the name of S. hodgsoni, Blyth, evidently includes 

 two Shrews, the S. pygnueus of Hodgson and the S. hodgsonii of 

 Blyth. Hodgson's Shrew is described by himself as having the 

 structure of a typical Sorex, which would lead to the conclusion that 

 it was a member of the group with white teeth {Pachyura), because 

 he apparently regarded the leucodontide species (P. indica) as 

 typical Sorices. He gave the measurements of his S. pygmceus as, 

 snout to veut less than 2 inches, tail Lj* 6> head-fi, palms \, planta §. 

 Blyth was undecided whether his so-called S. hodgsoni might not be 

 a female of Crocidura perottetii; and in its measurements it is 

 allied to that species. They are as follows : — head and body 1^ inch, 

 tail 1, hind foot and claws ^, skull somewhat exceeding f . The 

 measurements, however, given by Hodgson of his S. pygmcEus, only 

 less than 2 inches, would appear to indicate that it was a consi- 

 derably larger species than Blyth's hypothetical C. perottetii, and 

 that it therefore cannot be regarded as a synonym of the species 

 described by Blyth under that name ; and as the latter differs from 

 true C. perottetii in other important characters, both Hodgson's and 

 Blyth's species appear to be distinct Shrews, and must be regarded 

 as such until they are found to be otherwise. Both appear to be 

 Pachyurce ; and the two species stand as P. pygmceus, Hodg., and P. 

 hodgsoni, Blyth. The species which I have just described I should 

 be inclined to refer to the latter for the reasons already stated. The 

 identity or non-identity, however, of these so-called species must 

 remain unsettled until further materials are obtained from the lo- 

 calities whence they were originally procured, viz. Darjeeliug and 

 Calcutta. 



I have received a single specimen from Cherra Punji, Khasya 

 hills, that in the shortness of its anterior upper incisors agrees with 

 Blyth's S. heterodon. It is a Crocidura, however, with the dental 



formula ~-^r + 2~^~2+~6 = ^®' Its skull is that of an adult. 

 Measurements of Skull. 



inch. 



From inferior border of foramen magnum to anterior end of the 



intermaxillary '71 



Posterior margin of palate to extremity of intermaxillary .... '35 



Length of alveolar surface of maxilla *35 



Greatest breadth across maxilla '27 



Breadth across intermaxillaries at tip of snout - 08 



Breadth in front of glenoid articulation "21 



Breadth of skull on a line with posterior extremity of alveolar 



surface of maxilla • 1 9 



Greatest breadth of skull '35 



From glenoid articulation to inferior margin of foramen magnum - 23 

 Length of lower jaw from angle (exclusive of process) to an- 

 terior margin *35 



Depth before coronoid process *08 



