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Show 574 MESSliS. W. E. DE WINTON AND F. AV. STYAN [May 2, CHIMARROGALE STYANI, sp. n. Above uniform dark slate-black ; from the shoulders backwards interspersed with shining white hairs, which increase in length and numbers on the rump, similar to but to a far less extent than found in Nectogale ; all the underparts, with the upper lip and side of face to the height of the eye, white washed with yellow, a sharp line dividing the dark and light surfaces. Fore and bind feet white except a narrow line on the dorsal surface running towards the 5th finger and toe on the outer side. Tail almost exactly as in Neomys (= Grossopus); and in fact the whole animal so closely resembles our Water-Shrew that it is hard to believe that it does not belong to tbe same genus. Breadth of skull across squamosals 11 millim., narrowest interorbital constriction 5, front of incisors to back of palate 11*7, greatest width outside molars 7, tip of incisors to tip of pm- 4 5. Mandible-greatest length (tip of incisors to condyle) 14 ; angle to coronoid 5. " 2 length 6 inches ; eves black." Type BJV1. No. 99. 3. 1. 8. Yang-liu-pa, N . W . Sechuen, 16 June, 1897. Measurements of dry skin: head and bodv 108 millim., tail 61, hind foot 20. Very slight stain on the teeth, perhaps rather less than in C. himalaica; viewed from the side, tbe three intermediate teeth are subequal, slightly longer than the front cusp of pm. 4 • viewed from above, the first of these small teeth appears rather larger than either of the two posterior, which are equal. SoRicr/Lr/s HYPSIBIUS, sp. n. Tbe entire animal almost uniformly coloured dull dark brown-soot colour, the underparts only very slightly paler in tint; the fore and hind feet pale ; the tail long ; teeth 4 = 28. 8. Tang-liu-pa, November, 1897. Type B.M. No. 99. 3. 1. 10. Measurements taken from the dried skin : head and body 84 millim., tail 65, hind foot 15. Skull-width across squamosals 8*7, narrowest interorbital constriction 4*7, front of incisors to back of palate 9, width outside ms. 1 6*1, tip of incisors to tip of pm. 4 3*6. Mandible-greatest length (tip of incisors to tip of condyle) 12*3, to angle 11*5 ; angle to coronoid 4*5. The first five teeth in the upper jaw are tipped with red, the colour extending on the teeth in proportion to their size; of the three intermediate teeth the first is about double the size of either of the others, the second being only very slightly longer than the last. In the lower jaw the first three teeth only are tipped with red. There is no red on the molars of either jaw. The lower jaw has a very short and small angle. The skull is lighter, narrower, and low*er in the facial portion than S. minor from Manipur. |