VOL. XIV, PP, 157-159 AUGUST 9, 1901 PROCEEDINGS or THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW ASIATIC SHREWS.* BY GERR1T S. MILLER, JR. Among the Asiatic shrews in the United States National Mu seum are two species that appear to have not yet been named. A third was recently submitted to me for determination by Mr. Oldfield Thomas. Crocidura ilensis sp. nov. Type. Adult female (skin and skull) collected in open grass country at Kukturuk, (altitude, 5400 ft.) Hi, central Asia, October 12, 1899, by P. Church. Original number, 4. Specimen to be presented to the British Museum. Character*. In general similar to Kashmir specimens of Crocidura myoide* (Blanford), but smaller. Color distinctly paler than in the Kash mir animal, the feet nearly white. Skull with more slender rostrum and smaller teeth. Color. Dorsal surface pale drab, the hairs drab-gray subterminally and a gray about matching Ridgway's No. (PI. II) at base. Ventral surface silvery whitish gray in distinct but not sharply defined contrast with color of back. Feet whitish gray. Tail indistinctly bicolor, whitish gray below, drab above. Skull and teeth. The skull is distinctly smaller than that of C. myoides and C. rvvsula, which are of essentially the same size. In form, how-*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 31-BiOL. Soc. WASH. VOL. XIV, 1901. (157)
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