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XX. ON TWO NEW PYGMY SHREWS FROM
THE MALAY PENINSULA.
By C. Boden Kloss, F.Z.S.
Crocidura GRAVIDA, Sp. 110V.
Type (and only specimen examined):—Adult male
(skin and skull), F.M.S. Mus. No. 79/17. Collected on Pulau
Dayang Bunting,* Langkawi Islands, West Coast Malay
Peninsula, on 8th Dec. 1916, b}' H. C. Robinson.
Diagnosis:— About the same size as C. klossi, Robinson, of
the Redang Islands, Trengganu (C. major, Kloss, preoccupied) I
but tail longer and colour much less brow 11 : the greyest of all
the known shrews from the Peninsula region. Colour not to
be exactly matched by any of Ridgway's examples (Colour
Standards and Nomenclature) but nearest to dark Quaker
drab, with a tinge of brown strongest anteriorly; rather paler
below.
Measurements:— See table on p. 128.
Crocidura tionis, sp. nov.
Type-.—k&uli female (skin and skull) F.M.S. Mus.
No. 881/15. Collected on Tioman Island, East Coast Malay
Peninsula, on 1st July, 1915, by H. C. Robinson.
Diagnosis:—About the same colour as C. klossi but
smaller; about the same size as C. ncgligens, Robinson and
Kloss, of Koh Samui near Bandon, East Coast Malay Peninsula
J but browner. General colour effect of upper parts
Benzo brown (Ridgway), the hairs having deep neutral grey
bases and brown tips: below paler and nearly neutral grey
slightly tinged with brownish mesially.
Measurements:—See table on p. 128.
Specimens examined:— Five, all from the type locality
* Pregnant Damsel Island.
Ann. and I Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii, p. 117 (1911); fourn. F. M. S. Mus.,