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Genoa, Italy : head and body, 41 and 42 ; tail, 26 and 28 ; hind 

 foot, 7 ■ 6 and 8 ' 0. Adult female from Sassari, Sardinia : head 

 and body, 41 ; tail, 29 ; hind foot, 7*8. For cranial measure- 

 ments see Table, p. 85. 



Specimens examined. — Twenty- nine, from the following localities : — 



Italy : Near Turin, 2 (Genoa) ; Perti, Finalborgo, 2 (Genoa) ; near 

 Genoa, 5 (U.S.N.M. and Genoa) ; Pisa, 5 (B.M. and Mottaz) ; Florence, 6 

 (U.S.N.M. andilottaz) ; Tuscany, 2; Borne, 1 (Genoa) ; no exact locality, 2. 



Sicily : No exact locality, 2. 



Sakdiuta: Assuni, 1 (U.S.X.M.). No exact locality, 1. 



Greece : Lamia, 1. 



Marquis G. Doria (p). 69. 3. 4. 1. 



(No history). 



Zoological Society's 55. 12. 26. 295. 



Collection. 



Purchased. 58. 10. 21. 13. 



Purchased (Parzu- 52. 2. 26. 22-23. 



daki). 



Hon. N. C. Boths- 11. 10. 1. 1. 



child (p). 



E. MacDoneU (p). 8. 7. 22. 1. 



Genus CROCIDURA Wagler. 



1832. Crocidura Wagler, Isis, p. 275 [Sorex leucodon Hermann). 



1857. Crocidura Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 137. 



1869. Leucodon Fatio, Faune Vert. Suisse, I, p. 132 (substitute for 



Crocidura). 

 1897. Paurodus Schulze, Mamm. Europ., in Helios, Abhandl. n. Vortrage 



Gesammtb. Naturwiss., xiv, p. 90 (Sorex leucodon Hermann and 



S. araneus Schreber = S. russulus Hermann). 



Type species. — Sorex leucodon Hermann. 



Geographical distribution. — Africa and warmer portions of 

 Europe and Asia, including the Malay Archipelago ; in Europe, 

 north to northern Holland and central Germany, west to the 

 Atlantic coast and the Channel Islands. Absent from Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



Characters. — Upper unicuspid teeth 3-3 (dental formula : 

 i !t 3 , c J^J, pm !=1, m jj=| = 28 ; posterior lobe of upper incisor 

 noticeably less than half as high as main cusp ; anterior lower 

 incisor without lobes on cutting edge ; third lower molar with hypo- 

 conid and entoconid coalesced, so that form of tooth is strikingly 

 different from that of other molars, its crown 4-cusped instead 

 of 5-cusped ; second lower unicuspid without rudimentary second 

 cusp and commissure ; teeth white throughout ; skull heavier and 

 more robust than in Sorex and Neomys, with conspicuously deeper 

 rostrum and less contrast between width of brain-case and that 

 of anterior portion ; rudimentary zygomatic process of maxillary 

 obsolete ; external form rather heavy ; ear rising noticeably 



* i, 2 9. llarismas, Lower Guadal- A. Chapman (c&p). 11.12.19.1-3. 

 quivir, Spain. 

 Beceived December, 1911.— 0. T. 



