566 SOLENODONTID&. 
Fam. III. Solenodontide. 
Tail long, naked; snout cylindrical, elongate; feet armed with 
sharp claws, those on fore feet longest. Skull without zygomatic 
arch or postorbital processes; tympanic not forming a bulla; slight 
constriction behind orbits; squamosals expanded outward and for- 
ward; upper molars tritubercular; first upper incisor enlarged ; second 
lower incisor hollowed internally; tibia and fibula distinct; mamme 
postinguinal. 
FIG. 106. SOLENODON CUBANUS. 
No. 134 Field Columbian Mus, Coll. Nat. size. 
