KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:o 9. 11 
style of the same shape as the omosternum figured, not at all »rudimentary». TIfit 
thus can vary so highly in Cryptotis, it may vary in the closely allied Phanerotis as 
well. 
Another difference is displayed in the shape of the tongue, which is oval in the 
type of Phanerotis, but broadly triangular in my specimens (fig. 3 c). The shape of the 
tongue, however, is generally no important character, and the difference may possibly 
depend upon individual variation, or it is caused by a different state of preserva- 
tion of the animals. Of no importance are also the small differences in length of the 
hind limbs and breadth of the interorbital space. More difficult to understand is the 
quite different colourpattern of the foot. Regarding the type specimen BOoULENGER 
says: »Tarsus and outer toe bordered with black», which appears to signify, that the 
remaining parts of the foot are light. In my specimens we find the opposite to be 
the case; the under surfaces of the tarsus and foot are chocolate brown, but the 
outer sides of the tarsus and of the outer toe are greyish white. 
In other respects BoULENGER's description of the colour corresponds very well 
with the colour of my specimens. »Hinder sides of thighs blackish brown; a black 
band borders the postocular fold inferiorly, its lower border sinous and involving the 
upper third of the tympanum; a few rosy spots below the eye and behind the axilla; 
a cross bar between the eyes and the interscapular chevronfold blackish>» etc. In 
the type specimen, however, »the sides of head and axillary region are black»; of this 
there are only faint traces in the specimen figured. The dark colour is a juvenile 
characteristic, which has almost entirely disappeared in this large specimen, but it is 
partly retained in BOoULENGER'S somewhat smaller specimen and wholly in the 
small specimen from Queensland, which has the sides black from the tip of the snout 
to behind the axil. 
The small round dark spots behind the axil are not »rosy» in my specimens. 
FLETCHER, however, mentions specimens of Phanerotis from New South Wales which 
lack such rosy spots as well as the light median band, stated by BoULENGER. 
The skin of the type-specimen is granular on the upper sides and provided 
with »a small A-shaped glandular fold between the shoulder, and an oblique fold 
from the eye to the middle of the sides passing above the tympanum>. The latter 
fold is very distinet in both my specimens, and in the specimen figured there are 
traces of the former as well in the shape of two short folds in the dark postocular 
dorsal spots. In the small specimen the skin of the whole upper side is prickled 
by small spiny porous warts, forming some short longitudinal folds on the back. 
In the large specimen as well there are traces of such spines here and there and 
especially on the upper eyelids, which in this manner become »warty». The under 
surfaces are, as in the type specimen, quite smooth and uniform »whitish with exception 
of the tibia (in my specimens also of the tarsus and foot) which is brown». A light 
band, bordering the black, runs from the knee along the outer margin of the tibia, 
tarsus and 5th toe. 
