SORICIDtE. 



Genns Chimarrogale, n. g. 



Feet scaly, ciliated, loitli short, coarse, rigid hairs along their margins and the 

 sides of the toes ; toes not ivebbed. Tail long, scaly, quadrangular, thickly covered 

 with coarse adpressed hairs ; snout elongate ; ears almost wholly hidden, valvular. 



Teeth ivhite "-^ + 2 "^ 2 + g ^^ ^^" -^ talon on the inside of the first upper incisors .- 

 Three intermediate teeth of nearly equal size. 



* Chimaero&ale himalaica, Gray, Plate v, figs. 17 — 30. 



Crossopus himalayicus, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843, p. 261 ; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



1855, p. 37. 

 Crossopus himalaicus, Tomes, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. 1856, vol. xvii. p. 26 ; Jerdon, 



Mamm. of India, 1867, p. 60.; Andr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 230. 

 Ch-ocidura himalaica, Andr., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 231. 



I caught a specimen of tliis remarkable water-shrew in a mountain stream 

 behind our camp at Ponsee, in the Kakhyen hills, at an elevation of 3,500 feet. 

 I observed it running about over the stones ia the bed of the stream and plunging 

 freely into the water. It was evidently engaged in feeding, and in addition to 

 insects and aquatic larvae, it is probable that, like Crossopus fodiens and C. remiger,^ 

 it may kill young fish. 



I have examined the type of this species in the British Museum, but with the 

 exception of its somewhat greater length of body and tail, I do not see that this 

 Yunnan specimen differs from it in any of its essential features. The type being a 

 stuffed specimen, its somewhat greater size may safely be attributed to the stretching 

 of the skin in mounting. 



The animal has a rather elongated body and snout. The fur is soft, dense 

 and velvety, and the general colom' of the upper parts is a dark grey, richly washed 

 with a dark brown, almost black, fuliginous or blackish brown which nearly obscures 

 the grey colour. When the fur is pulled aside, it is seen to be uniformly slaty, 

 but all the haks terminate in fine brown or blackish brown tips, with the exception 

 of scattered, stronger, and longer hau's which have broad white tips. These hairs 

 are especially numerous on the hind quarters, where they are also much longer 



' Land and Water, No. 14, p. 328, and No. 17, p. 398. 



