VOL. XIV, PP. 41-45 APRIL 25, 1901 PROCEEDINGS OP THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON FIVE NEW SHREWS FROM EUROPE.* BY GERRIT S. MILLER, JR. Among the extensive series of European shrews collected for the United States National Museum during the past three years there are five forms that have not been hitherto described. Two of these were taken in Sicily by Mr. Dane Coolidge, two in the foothills of the Pyrenees by Mr. Robert T. Young, and one in Switzerland by Mr. J. Alden Loring. Crocidura sicula sp. nov. Type. Adult male (skin and skull) No. 103,301 United States National Museum. Collected at Palermo, Sicily, June 20, 1900, by Dane Coolidge. Original No. 1332. Characters. Smaller than Crocidura russula from central Europe (total length about 105 instead of 120; hind foot, 13 instead of 15); color, both above and below, lighter than in the continental animal. Color. Dorsal surface drab (a trifle paler than Ridgway's pi. Ill, fig. 18) faintly clouded with broccoli-brown, many of the hairs showing sil very tips in certain lights. Underparts pale smoke-gray approaching white. Along sides the transition from drab to gray is much more abrupt than in C. russula in corresponding coat. Tail dull drab, faintly paler below. Feet an indefinite gray intermediate between color of tail and belly. The fur is everywhere gray (Ridgeway pi. II, fig. 7) at base. Skull and teeth. The skull and teeth are uniformly and noticeably *Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 9 BIOL. Soc. WASH. VOL. XIV, 1901. (41)
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