724 CLASS XVII. 



7—7 . 4—4 



deciduous ; two middle lower small ; molars ^ — ^ , spurious q — 5 



distant, in place of canines, cylindric, acuminate at the apex*. 

 Muzzle produced, with nose proboscidean. Eyes very small. Feet 

 pentadactylous, (anterior resembling the feet of moles,) posterior 

 palmate. Tail short, annulate, thinly haired. 



Sp. Scal(yps canadensis Desm., Sorcx aquaticusJj., SiCUREB. Sdugth. Tab. 158, 

 GuER. Iconogr., Mamm. PI. xi. bis, fig. 3 ; on the banks of rivers in North 

 America ; somewhat larger than the mole, with which in form and mode of 

 life it corresponds. 



Family XXXIX. Soricina. Body covered by hair. Eyes 

 distinct ; ears in most. Feet not fossorial. 



Myogalea FisCHER {Synopsis Mamm. p. 250), Mygale Cuv. {Anat. 

 comp. I. in the first synoptic table at the end of the volume ; a 

 name given by Walckenaer to a genus of the Aranece, and gene- 



2 

 rally received). Incisors j, the upper large, broad, triangular, the 



two middle inferior small ; true canines none ; molars -^r — ^ , false 



6-6 4-4 



molars ^ — -,-. , true ^ — ^ , with crown quadrate. Nose proboscidean, 

 b — o — 



depressed, mobile. Ears none. Feet pentadactylous, palmate. 



Tail long, thinly haired, compressed at the tip. Glandular follicles 



at the tail, arranged in a double row. 



Sp. Myogalea -niuscovitica Desmar., Sorex moschatus Pall., Gmel., Castor 

 moschatus L., Buff, x. PI. i, Pallas Act. Acad. Petropolit. 1781, Part 11. 

 (1785), p. 315, Tab. 3 e< 5 {Anat.), Schreb. Sdugth. Tab. 159, Guj^r. 

 Iconogr., Mammif. PI. xi. fig. 2 ; tail compressed through the entire length, 

 shorter than the body ; in the south-eastern part of Russia ; compare 



1 Commonly only two incisors are allowed to this animal in the upper jaw. I am 

 of opinion, however, that the two which follow them on each side, so named false 

 molars, ought also to be referred to the incisors, since, according to the figure of 

 F. Cuvier {Des dents des Mammif. No. 22, p. 54), they are planted in the inter- 

 maxillary bone ; in the skull examined by me they were wanting. Eichardson 

 observed more false molars than F. Cuvier, and makes the total number of teeth in 

 this genus 44 instead of 36 as above. Fauna hor. Amer. I. pp. 9, 10. It seems that LiN- 

 NiEUS drew his character of the genus Sorex (dentes primores inferiores 4, intermediis 

 hreviorihus) from his Sorex aquaficus, i. e. from Scalops. According to Owen the dental 



. . ?i — .5 I — 1 4 — 4 .^ — 3 



formula is i. , c. . , p. , m. " = 44, Odont. pp. 415, 416. 



3—3 I — I' ^ 4—4 3—3 11 -»-'•» 



