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rather long hairs, at the base of the claws, above. Toes 

 ciliated along each of their sides, with a line of broad stiff hairs 

 of equal length, forming a dease short fringe. The line, 

 along the outer margin of the internal and external toes, is 

 continued along the sides of the feet as a strongly ciliated 

 line, or fringe of white hairs : the claws are yellowish, moi 

 derately long, and curved. From the vent to the tip of the 

 tail equals the distance from the vent to nearly the eye. 

 Tail long, quadrangular in transverse section : under surface 

 and sides densely covered with longish adpressed, broadisb, 

 coarse, rigid hairs of the same character as those on the sides 

 of the toes, and feet, but longer : upper surface in its two 

 upper thirds is only sparsely covered witbshprt strong ciliated 

 hairs not so obscuring the scaly rings as in the lower third, 

 where it is clad much as on the under surface and sides. 

 The hairs on the under surface of the tail are white, and on 

 the sides and upper surface dark brown. 



The eye is small, almost hidden, and the ear almost com. 

 pletely so by the fur. The ear is a transversely oval slit 

 Q'-ZQ in length; the lower margin of the lower posterior half 

 of the ear covered with fine microscopic hairs. The portion 

 above the antetragus is covered on its inner surface with 

 ordinary fur, except at a small spot at its upper extremity. 



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Length, tip of snout to vent ...... 383 



Veut to tip of snout ....... 3'00 



liength of hind foot 087 



Measurements of skull. 



Anterior border of foramen magnum to tip of premaxillsa , 90 



Breadth across maxillae ....... 34 



„ behind preorbital foramen 026 



,, at posterior end of temporal fossa .... 028 

 „ at posterior end of upper articular surface from lower 



]aw 



0-43 



„ external to tympanic 055 



Length of lower jaw 59 



Front incisors moderately large and not much curved. The 

 posterior eminence low, and but little pointed. The inter- 

 mediate teeth of nearly equal size, the middle tooth being the 

 largest, and the third the smallest, all being conical. The 

 central external cusp of the first molar is not very strong or 

 long, while its rather obtuse anterior cusp is on a level with 

 the third intermediate tooth. 



It is closely allied to, if not identical with, Sorex {Crosqpus) 

 plalycephalus, Temminck, of Japan. 



