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1877.] J. Anderson — New and little hioimi A.natic SJirervf}. 207 



Length, tip of snout to vent, in. 4 70 



„ oftail, 280 



„ of hindfoot, 082 



,, tip of snout to eye, 0*70 



,, eye to ear, 039 



Height of ear, 0-38 



Breadth of ear, 038 



Upper incisors short and stout, curved, nearly convergent at their tips. 

 No eminence of fhe cingulum on the inside of the posterior portion of the 

 tooth which is rather broader than the base of the elongated j)oi'tion. 

 Second incisor not very large, bvit equalling the conjoint breadth of the third 

 incisor and canine. The third incisor is considerably smaller than the canine, 

 but the tip of the latter is somewhat above the level of that of the former. 

 The premolar is not very small and it is nearly as broad as the canine 

 behind which it directly lies, but externally it is nearly wholly hidden by the 

 first molar. The anterior cusp on the first molar and its large cutting 

 cusp are not strongly developed : the point of the latter is below the level 

 of that of the second incisor. The anterior portion of the frontals is not 

 much narrower than the portion behind the orbits. This skull is fully adult, 

 as all the sutures have disappeared even to the basi-occipital suture. 



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Anterior margin of foramen magnum to tip of premaxillae, in. I'lO 



Breadth across maxillae (molars) , 0*40 



„ behind infraorbital foramen, 025 



,, anterior to brain case, , 0'26 



„ external to glenoid fossae, , 048 



„ „ to tympanic, : 0*55 



Length of upper alveolar line, 0*58 



Condyle of lower jaw to anterior end of alveolar line, 60 



It inhabits (Sindh) Karachi. 



De Filippi in his description of C. fumigata mentions, as a character of 

 the sjDecies, the presence " along the lower jaw, on each side of the mento- 

 gular region, of four small prominences each bearing a long hair." These 

 hairs, however, are common to all shrews as far as my observations go. 



CrOCIDTJEA (P.) PEALANA, U. S. 



Body slender ; snout long and pointed ; feet moderately slender ; lower 



half of limbs with short hair, but the feet are moderately well clad. The 



claws are rather short and strong. The tail is a little more than two-thirds 



the length of the trunk, rounded, clad with brownish black hairs, with a f ew, 



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