MAMMALIA. 725 



Brandt Bemerhmgen iiber den innem Bau des Wuychochol, Wiegmann's 

 Archivfur Naturgesch. 1836, 1, s. 176 — 182.— Myogalea jpyrenaica Geoffr. 

 Saint-Hilaire, Ann. du Mus. xvii. PI. iv. figs, i, 3, 4, 5, MSm. du Mus. 

 I. PI. XV. figs. 10 — 12 (the skull and the teeth); smaller than the pre- 

 ceding, tail as long as the body, compressed at the tip only ; this species 

 lives at the foot of the Pyrenees. They are aquatic animals, living in 

 holes of which the entrance is in the water. 



Macroscelides Smith, [Macroscelis Fischer, Rhinomys Lich- 



6 



TENST.). Incisor teeth j? small, with upper middle larger; true 



7-7 7-7 . 3-3 , 



canines none; molars ^ — ^ or ^ — ^ , spurious ^ — ^, not longer 



than incisors. Nose extended into a long slender proboscis, with 

 nostrils in the extreiuity, perforated a little obliquely. Eyes mode- 

 rate or somewhat large. Ears large, thinly haired. Fore feet pen- 

 tadactylous, with pollex and outer toe short, raised, the hind feet 

 much longer, with four toes equal and pollex short, raised or none. 

 Claws sliort, slender, compressed, incurved, acute. Tail long (tumid 

 below behind the base, with glandular follicles in some, or in 

 males alone). 



a) With hind feet 2'>entadactyhus, 



Sp. Macroscelides typiciis Smith, Zool. Journal, No. xvr. Bullet, des Sc. nat. 

 xviii. 1829, Aolit, p. 273, Illustr. of the Zool. of South Afr. Mamm. PI. 

 10 ; — Macroscelides rupestris Smith, Illustr. 1. 1. PI. 11, Macroscelides typus 

 IsiD. Geoffr. St.-Hilaire, Ann. des Sc. nat. xviii. 1829, pp. 165 — 173, 

 Lesson Cent. Zool, PI. 12. This and some other species live in the south 

 of Africa. In North Africa near Oran lives another species Macroscelides 

 TJozefo' DuvERNOT, Mem. de la Soc. d'Hist. nat. de Strasbourg, t. 2, 1833, 

 pp. 1—23, PI. I. II. 



This genus of animals recalls Parameles amongst the Marsupialia. It 

 agrees with the marsupials in the imperfect ossification of the palate, which 

 is perforated by many holes. 



b) With hind feet tetrada^tylous. (Sub-genus Petrodromus Peters.) 



Sp. Macroscelides tetradactylus, Petrodromus tetradactylus Peters, EeiM nach 

 Mossami., Sdugth. Tab. xx. 



Sorex L. (excl. Sorex cristatus and aquaticus). Incisor teeth 



P * 



- , tlie two middle large, the upper incurved, having at the base 



posteriorly a tubercle, the lower procumbent, acuminate; true 



6—6 5—5 7—7 



canines none : molars ~. r , more seldom r — -^ or ~z — ^^ , con- 



4—4 5—5 5-5 



