CROCIDTJRA. 171. 



VII.— Family SORICID^. 



I.— Sub-Family ANUROSORICIN^. 



Genus ANUROSOREX, A. M. Edwards, 1870. 



228. Anurosorex assamensis. 



Anurosorex assamensis, Anderson, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat: Hist. vol. xvi, 

 1875, p. 252; Anat. iSf Zool. Resah. Yunnan JSxped. 1878, p. 150, pi. 

 V figs. 1-16. 



Hah. Assam. 



Head large ; eye excessively small ; ear hidden under the 

 fur, and valvular. Feet devoid of hairs, sealy and of nearly 

 equal breadth, but the fore-feet the shorter. Tail rudimentary, 

 almost completely hidden by the fur. Fur nearly erect, fine, 

 dense and silky, longest on the rump : numerous long hairs 

 project beyond the general mass of the fur, and are brown, 

 tvith obscure pale tips : general colour of the fur dark slaty, 

 faintly marked with brownish rusty on the long hairs on the 

 rump. "Whiskers well developed : shorter hair above and 

 between the eyes : semi-nude parts of the snout, the scaly 

 limbs, and tail are. flesh coloured, and the claws are vellow. 

 Snou tto vent a"-92 : fore-foot O'-SO : hind foot C'T'S : tail 



c-so. 



278a to e-. A stuffed adult female and her skeleton, and 

 three of her young ones in alcohol. Obtained between 

 Sibsagar and Jaipur, Assam. Presented by S. E. Peal, Esq., 

 September 1871. Type. Described and figured Anat & Zool. 

 Resch. 



II.— Sub-Family CROCIDURINiE. 



Genus CROCIDURA, Wagler, 1833. 



Sub-Genus PACHYUEA, Selys-Longchamps, 1839. 

 (Latertd gland.) 



229. Crocidura eserulescens. 



La mnsaraigne musquee de I'lnde, Buffon, Nat. Hist. Suppl. t. vii, 



1789, p. 381, p'l. Ixxi. 

 Perfuming Shrew, Pennant, Quadr. vol. ii, 1781, p. 477. 



' Pygmtira, Anderson, Proc, Zool. Soc, Lond., 1873, p, 220. 



