1 08 INSECTIVORA 



Ceociduea eussula cinte^; Miller. 



1907. Crocidura russula cintrse Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., 



xx, p. 390, November, 1907. Type in British Museum. 

 1910. Crocidura russula cintrse Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 45. 



Type locality. — Cintra, near Lisbon, Portugal. 



Geographical distribution. — At present known only from the 

 type locality. 



Diagnosis. — Size as in C. russula pulchra (hind foot, 1 1 ■ 4 to 

 12-7, condylobasal length of skull, 18 to 19-2), but colour fully 

 as dark as in true russula, the back between the mars-brown and 

 russet of Ridgway, the hairs with a peculiar, strong, coppery 

 lustre rarely indicated in the typical race. 



Measurements. — External measurements of type : head and 

 body, 64 ; tail, 33 ; hind foot, 1 1 • 4. Average and extremes of 

 ten specimens from the type locality : head and body, 67 ■ 6 

 (64-72); tail, 37-7 (33-42); hind foot, 11-9 (11-4-12-7). For 

 cranial measurements see Table, p. 107. 



Specimens examined. — Eleven, all from the type locality. 



Remarks. — In its small size the Cintra shrew agrees with the 

 Spanish race, but the colour is conspicuously darker. Taken as a 

 whole the series, in winter pelage, is about as dark as in French 

 and Belgian russula ; but the noticeable coppery lustre is highly 

 characteristic of the Portuguese form. 



6 <$, 5 ?. Cintra, Estremadura, O. Thomas (c & p). 98. 2. 2. 10-20. 

 300-350 m. Portugal. (Type of subspecies 98. 2. 2. 11.) 



CROCIDURA SICULA Miller. 



1879. ? Crocidura sicula Giglioli, Wiegmann's Archiv fur Naturgesch., 

 1879, I, p. 96. Nomen nudum : " Crocidura sicula (Giglioli MSS. 

 sp. nov. ?) Castelbuono, Sicilien." 



1901. Crocidura sicula Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc, Washington, xiv, p. 41, 

 April 25, 1901 (Palermo, Sicily). Type in U.S. National Museum. 



1910. Crocidura sicula Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 47. 



Type locality. — Palermo, Sicily. 



Geographical distribution. — Sicily. 



Diagnosis. — Size and colour essentially as in Crocidura russula 

 pulchra (hind foot, 12 to 13 mm., condylobasal length of skull, 

 17 "6 to 19 mm.); brain-case nearly as much flattened as in C. 

 leucodon, its depth usually a little less than half greatest width ; 

 crown area of molars slightly reduced. 



Colour. — Upper parts a light bluish drab tinged with sepia ; 

 underparts faintly constrasted pale smoke-grey, with or without 

 a buffy cast. Feet dull whitish grey. Tail obscurely bicolor, 

 brownish above, whitish grey below. 



Skull and teeth. — Except for its distinctly flattened brain-case 



