192 Dr. Harris on a nondescript Species of Condylura. 
The animals of this family, like the moles and shrew-mice. 
burrow in the ground, and live upon insects. 
In March 1825, a small animal was discovered, near Ma- 
chias, in the state of Maine, which exbibits the characteristics 
of the genus Condylura, but which is evidently distinct from 
C. cristata, the type of that genus. These animals both have 
in the upper jaw six incisors implanted in the praemaxillary 
bone, the two intermediate ones large, their cutting edge oblique; 
the adjoining incisors resembling long canine teeth, slightly 
triangular at the base, where are situated two minute tubercles ; 
each external incisor isolated, very small, conic, and pointing 
backwards. Seven molares on each side; the three first re- 
sembling canine teeth, and may be considered as false molares ; 
they are smaller than the true molares, are isolated with two 
minute lobes at the base. ‘The four posterior molares large, 
formed of two layers of enamel, furrowed externally, and 
tuberculated within. 
The palate has seven transverse ridges between the incisors 
and the first two molares. ; 
Lower jaw with four flattened and projecting incisors; five 
false molares, separated from each other, the first the largest, 
and each of them with three or four small lobes; three true 
molares, composed of two layers of eriamel, channelled within, 
and tuberculated on the outside. 
Proboscis elongate, extensile; the nasal extremity naked, 
and bordered with about twenty cartilaginous, acuminated 
processes, disposed in a circle, the two superior ones united 
at the base, longer than the others, and situated a little in ad- 
vance of them. 
Neck indistinct; legs short, the hind ones placed far back ; 
feet five-toed, the anterior ones very broad and scaly, with a 
series of curved hairs on the external edge; the nails long 
and straight. The hind feet a third longer than the fore feet, 
scaly, narrow, with a warty excrescence on the inner part of 
the tarsus; nails slightly curved and short. Tail scaly, and 
thinly covered with coarse hairs. Eyes minute. No external 
ears. 
The species from Maine appears to be a nondescript, and 
may therefore receive the name of prasinata. It is clothed 
with a long and very fine fur of a green colour, with a few 
gray hairs at the extremity of the tail. The nose is naked, 
the caruncles, which surround it in a stellate manner, are 
twenty-two in number, and of a brownish hue. The eyes are 
exceedingly minute, and are entirely concealed by the fur. 
The fore feet greatly resemble hands; the palms are covered 
with a thick cuticle, and on the inside of each of the fingers, 
near 
