1877.] J. Anderson — New and little known Asiatic S/treics. 269 



CrOCIDUEA (P.) BLANFOllDrr, n. s. 



Snout long, slender and attenuated. Ear moderately developed, sparsely 

 clad with short hairs which appear as a pale fringe along the margin ; flaps 

 with longer and stronger pale hairs. Feet. rather long and slender, also the 

 toes moderately well clad with brown hairs, uniform with the body ; claws 

 yellowish, moderately strong, compressed, curved at the tips. Tail a little 

 thickened at the base, well haired, with short, brown hairs completely obscur- 

 ing the rings : long hairs white and numerous. Tail apparently consider- 

 ably shorter than the trunk. Fur very short, dense and mole-like, grayish 

 at the base, the remainder wholly brown, and showing a somewhat finely 

 speckled appearance in reflected lights ; under-parts grayish-brown with a 

 silvery sheen ; snout, feet and tail brownish j skin of ears blackish. 



Adult 9 



Length, tip of snout to vent, in. 4ii5 



„ oftail, 2-35 



„ of hindfoot, 0-70 



,, snout to eye, 0'67 



,, eye to ear, 0*30 



Height of ear, 0-37 



Breadth of ear, 34 



First upper incisors moderately long and close together : basal cusp 

 conically pointed. Second incisor very large, canine somewhat larger than 

 the third incisor. The two nearly equalled by the horizontal or basal 

 length of the second incisor. The premolar is very small and wedged in 

 between the canine and first molar. The point of the second incisor is some- 

 what below the level of the point of the chief cusj) of the first molar. 



2 



Anterior margin of foramen magnum to tip of premaxillse, in. 0"98 



Breadth across maxillaj, 0*35 



„ behind infraorbital foramen, 0*22 



„ anterior to brain case, 0'26 



„ external to glenoid fossae, , 0'39 



„ ,, to tympanic, 0*50 



Length of upper alveolar line, 0-49 



„ from condyle of lower jaw to end of alveolar margin, 0'59 



This shrew was obtained by Mr. W. T. Blanford at Khandalla, on the 

 Western Grhats, near Bombay, at an elevation of 2000 ft. 



