Soriculus nigrescens (Gray, 1842) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:261.

TYPE LOCALITY: " India ", West Bengal, Darjeeling .

DISTRIBUTION: Middle altitudes of the Himalaya from Tibet and Nepal to Assam and SW China.

SYNONYMS: caurinus, centralis, pahari, radulus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Soriculus . The form radulus is distinctly smaller (Hoffmann, 1985b).