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INSECTIVOEA 



locality: head and body, 127-5 (125-130) ; tail, 29-5 (29-30) ; 

 hind foot, 18"4 (18-18"6). For cranial measurements see Table, 

 p. 19. 



Specimens exatnined. — Fourteen, from the vicinity of Rome (B.M. and 

 U.S.N.M.) ; also about fifty from the same region in Turin Museum. 



Rtmarks. — Talpa romana is a well characterized species, 

 readily distinguished from other European moles by its unusually 

 large teeth. 



1. Ostia, Rome. Dr. L. Sambon (c & p). 1. 1. 2. 8. 



[Type ol species.) 

 1. Frascati, Rome. Dr. L. Sambon (c & p). 1. 1. 2. 9. 



6, 9 al. Rome. Genoa Museum (e). 3. 1. 31. 1-2. 



2 6. Rome. (C. Coli.) G. Barrett-Hamilton (p). 11. 1. 2. 1-2. 



Sub-Family DESMANIN^. 



Geographical distribution. — South-western France and northern 

 half of Iberian Peninsula ; eastern Russia and western Siberia. 



Characters. — Teeth in front of molars not differentiated by 

 form into incisors, canines, and premolars ; anterior upper 

 incisor greatly enlarged, canine-like, directed downward, its 

 outer edge highly trenchant, the two anterior lower incisors 

 slightly elongated, projecting obliquely forward ; external form 

 less evidently mole-like than in the Talpinse, modified for 

 aquatic life, the much enlarged hind feet with completely webbed 

 toes, the front feet smaller, not peculiar in form ; tail long ; 

 muzzle depressed. 



Bemarks. — The sub-family Desmaninse contains the genera 

 Desmana of Russia and Siberia, and Galemys of the Iberian 

 Peninsula and south-western France, strictly aquatic animals 

 not distantly related to the American moles. The anterior 

 teeth present a much higher degree of specialization than that 

 met with in the TaJpinse. 



Genus GALEMYS Kaup. 



1829. Galemys Kaup, Entw.-Gesch. u. Natiirl. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, i, 



p. 118 {Mygale pyrenaica Geoffroy). 

 1846. Galomys Agassiz, Nom. ZooL, Index Univ., p. 149 (Emendation of 



Galemys). 

 1849. Mygalina I. Geoffroy, D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat., iv, p. 709 



{Mygale pyrenaica Geoffroy). 



Type species. — Mygale pyrenaica Geoffroy. 



Geographical distribution. — Northern half of Iberian Peninsula, 

 and Pyrenean region of south-westei-n France. 



Characters. — Tail flattened laterally at distal extremity, else- 

 where terete ; unicuspid teeth slender, their width conspicuously 

 less than height of crown ; main cusp of large premolar trenchant 

 anteriorly ; brain-case without unusual ridges. 



