566 G. E. DOBSON 
This species, though resembling C. /lavescens in shape and in 
colour, may be at once distinguished by its much larger size, 
by the very different development and peculiar position of the 
lateral gland, and by the altogether different shape of the an- 
terior maxillary tooth. 
Hab. Shoa, Let-Marefia. Collected by the Marquis O. Antinori. 
I have much pleasure in connecting with the species the 
name of the Marquis G. Doria, to whom Zoologists owe much 
for increased knowledge of the smaller mammals. 
The nest two species are allied to C. fuZiginosa, Blyth, from 
India, Sarawak and Java. 
Crocidura paradoxura, n. sp. 
Resembles C. fuliginosa, Blyth, in size and in dentition, but 
differs from that species, as well as from all other known species, 
in the extraordinary length of the tail which is nearly double 
that of the head and body. The hind feet also are rather long 
and slender. Fur dense and rather long, uniform dark brown 
above, the extreme tips shining, the basal half the hairs bluish 
grey, beneath the extremities are slightly ashy. Ears clothed 
with short almost invisible hairs; manus and pes nearly naked; 
the slender cylindrical tail is clothed with short brown hairs 
only arising between the whorles of scales; there appear to he 
none of the long fine hairs so generally present in other spe- 
cies of this genus. 
There is no trace of a lateral gland in the single specimen 
but this is a female so that I am unable to say how far it is 
developed in males. 
The teeth resemble those of C. fuliginosa but are considerably 
narrower. 
Length (of an adult female specimen preserved in alcohol) 
head and body 66 ™™, tail 105, eye to end of nose 141/,, ear 
10'/,, elbow to end of middle-digit 21, manus 9, pes 16, tip 
of anterior cusp of first incisor to tip of chief cusp of last pre- 
molar 43/,. 
