1906.] MAMMALS FROM KOREA. 859 



No .specimens at all had ever been iecei\ed from Quelpart, 

 while with regard to Korea, five skins from Seoul, presented in 

 1891 by Mr. 0. W. Campbell, and a few odd specimens collected 

 by Mr. J. Kalinowski and presented in 1894 by the Branicki 

 Museum, War-saw, comprised the whole of the mammals that our 

 National Museum had previously had from that country. The 

 present series, presented as before by the Society's President to 

 the Museum, is therefore an accession of particular value. 



1. SOREX ANXEXL'S, Sp. n. 



2 . 699, 708. Min-gyong, 110 miles S.E. of Seoul. 1300'. 



" Under mossy stone among thick bushes." — 3T. P. A. 



A small Shrew of the ^S'. minutus group. 



Size about as in >S'. arane'us. Fur fine and soft ; hairs of back, 

 in winter specimens, about 6 mm. in length. General colour 

 above dark brown ; the back and sides imiform, without distinctly 

 darkened dorsal area. Under surface gTey faintly washed with 

 drab, the bases of the hairs slaty. Upper surface of hands and 

 feet brownish white. Tail very thinly haii-ed, brown above, 

 ratliei" paler below. 



Skull and teeth, in comparison with those of ^S'. macropygmoius 

 Miller, as indicated below. 



Dimensions of the two specimens, measured in the flesh : — 



699 (Type) 

 708 



Skull (of type) — greatest length 17 "8 mm.; basal length 15-4- 

 greatest breadth 8*8 ; palatal length 7"3 ; length of upper tooth- 

 series 7'7 ; breadth outside molars 4'3. 



Hah. As above. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. No. 6.12.6.12. Original number 

 699. Collected 10 December, 1905. 



In describing this Shrew the only species that seern to need 

 comparison with it are <S'. macropygmams Miller* and >S'. huxtoni 

 Allen t, the former from Petropaulski, Kamtchatka, the latter 

 from Gichika, N.W. of Kamtchatka. Although convinced of 

 its distinctness fi'om either, the descriptions did not enable me to 

 define it satisfactorily, and I therefoi'e sent it to Mr. Gerrit 

 Miller, and he has been good enough to give me the following 

 note about it : — 



" I find that the Korean Shi-ew is a very diflferent animal from 

 Sorex macrojyygmccus. Its skull differs conspicuously from that 

 of the Kamtchatkan animal in its much flatter brain-case and 

 broadei- interorbital. In the type of macrojMjgmceus the depth 

 of the brain-case is 5 mm., while its greatest width is 8'4 mm. 



* Proc. Biol. See. Wash. xiv. p. 158 (1901). 

 t Bull. Amev. Mus. N. H. xix. p. 181 (1903). 



