430 Frerp Museum or Naturat Hwstory — Zoézocy, VoL. XI. 
Blarina b. compacta Bancs. (Proc. N. Engl. Zodl. Club, III, 1902, p. 77.) Type 
locality — Nantucket, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Size about that of 
aloga; color slaty. 
Blarina b. aloga BaNGs. (Proc. N. Engl. Zoél. Club, III, 1902, p. 76.) Type lo- 
cality — West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Smaller than 
brevicauda; color pale brown. 
Blarina b. talpoides (GApPER). (Zodl. Journ., V, 1830, p. 202, Pl. VIII.) Type 
locality — Between York and Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Slightly smaller 
but otherwise very similar to brevicauda, and not considered by the writer as 
worthy of recognition. 
Blarina b. peninsule (MERRIAM). (N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 14.) Type lo- 
cality — Miami River, Dade Co., Florida. Similar to carolinensis, but color 
more slaty and hind feet larger. 
Blarina b. hulophaga Evriot. (Field Columb. Mus. Pub., Zodél. Ser., I, 1899, p. 287.) 
Type locality — Dougherty, Washita River, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Ter- 
ritory. Smaller and paler than brevicauda; tail shorter. 
Blarina b. telmalestes (MERRIAM). (N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 15.) Type lo- 
cality — Dismal Swamp, Virginia. Similar to brevicauda, but more plumbeous; 
hind feet relatively longer; skull narrower. 
Subgenus CRYPTOTIS Pomel. 
Teeth 30; unicuspids 4, but the fourth usually minute (as in our 
species, B. parva, in which it is hardly visible); basal cusp of middle 
incisor rounded; brain-case highest anterior to lambdoid suture. 
Blarina parva (Say). 
SMALL SHORT-TAILED SHREW. 
Sorex parvus Say, Long’s Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 1823, p. 164. 
Sorex eximius KENNIcOTT, Agr. Rept. for 1857, U.S. Patent Office Rept., 1858, p. 97 
(Dekalb Co., Illinois). 
Blarina eximius Bairp, Mammals N. Amer., 1857, p. 52 (St. Louis, Missouri; Dekalb 
Co., Illinois). 
Blarina exilipes EVERMANN'& BuTLeR, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1893 (1894), p. 132 
(Indiana). 
Blarina parva Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 10, 1895, p. 17 (Indiana, Nebraska, 
etc.). JACKSON, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, 1907, p.74 (S. W. Missouri). Ruoaps 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), p. 202 (Tennessee). Haun, Ann. 
Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 602 (Indiana). Woop, 
Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, t910, p. 588 (Champaign and Mason 
counties, Illinois). 
Type locality — West bank of Missouri River, near Blair (3 miles 
above mouth of Boyer River), Nebraska. 
Distribution — Southern United States (except Florida); from Texas 
and Nebraska to the Atlantic coast, north to Illinois and Penn- 
sylvania. 
