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male is considerably larger thau the female, and, moreover, 

 the individual differences in size in the sexes are considerable. 



The first incisors above are i-ather long and the curve out- 

 wards from the base anteriorly is not so abrupt as in the 

 previous species, but it is not a character calling for special 

 remark, as the degree to which it occurs is variable.- 



The antero-posterior breadth of the posterior portion of 

 the first incisor equals the same breadth across the base of the 

 anterior portion of the tooth where it joins its posterior por- 

 tion. The cusp of the posterior portion is not prominent, 

 and there is only a very obscure process of the cingulum at its 

 inner side. The second incisor is large and its breadth above 

 equals the united breadth of the 3 incisors and eye tooth, and 

 its point is above the level of the middle cusp of the false molar. 

 The second premolar is smaller than the canine and lying 

 immediately behind it, and in contact with it is the first 

 premolar which is wholly visible from the outside of the jaw 

 or nearly so. The cusp on the anterior border of the 1st 

 premolar is well developed and in nearly the same line as 

 the points of the 3 incisors, and above the point of the canines, 

 which is at a lower level. 



Shull meoLsurements. Male fully adult, and female nearly so. 



No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. S No. 6 No. 7 



S Length of skull . 1-30 049 31 0-32 0-51 059 074 



^- „ „ . 1-05 0-43 0-25 030 048 56 0-63 



Tomes describes the type of S. griffithii as characterised 

 by the large size of its teeth, which exceeded, he states, those 

 of any example of S. cmrulescens he had ever seen. Such a 

 description, however, is in no way applicable to the types of 

 S. griffithii as understood by Blyth, arid it is therefore per- 

 fectly evident, apart from external characters, that they are 

 not the S. griffithii of Horsfield. Tomes, however, did not 

 concur with Horsfield in considering the fur as either short, 

 close, or soft, but describes it as of medium length, deep 

 blackish grey, glossy and rather coarse. The specimens from 

 Arakan desciibed by Blyth as S. murinus (Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist, Vol. XVII, 1851, p. 15) were afterwards the 

 types of Blyth's S. griffithii, but these specimens were 

 regarded by Tomes as S. carulescens, and one of them appears 

 to be that species. 



Blyth was under the impression that the type of S. grif- 

 fithii was from the Khasi Hills, although described from 

 Afghanistan, because he saw a fine skin of a shrew be 



