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may possibly be 1.2.0.4, as in the Urotrichus- Uropsilus 

 series of genera ; but I am quite confident about the lower 

 incisors, which are 1 . 2 . 0, as in Desmana and the American 

 moles, as compared with 0.2.3 or 0.2.0 in Urotrichus^ 

 Uropsilus, and tiieir allies. 



The most salient points of the dentition are : (1) the total 

 number of 9 above and below, elsewhere only found in 

 Neurotrichus, and (2) the Desmana-Mko, character of the 

 lower incisors, which are subequal, strongly proclivous, the 

 second equally with the first abutting upon and being worn 

 down by the hinder surface of the huge anterior upper 

 incisors. 



P large, about as large jn-oportionally as in Scalops and 

 Urotrichus, therefore larger than in iScapanus, but very far 

 from as large or as specialized as in Desmana and Galemys. 

 P and p^ subequal, small, the canine between them rather 

 larger, double-rooted. P^ of about tiie same length and 

 twice the bulk of the canine ; p*' about four times the bulk of 

 p^, with a well-marked internal cusp. Molars with their 

 internal ledge subtrilobate, about as in Scapanus. 



Type. Scapanulus oweni, sp. n. 



Dividing, as I should, the family Talpidte into five sub- 

 families — the Desmanince, Talpince, Scalopince, Condylurince, 

 and Uropsi/ince — this most interesting new genus falls 

 obviously into the ScaJopinte, within which it belongs rather 

 to tiie Scalopine than the Urotriciiine series of genera. But 

 with its rather less modified manus and pterygoids and com- 

 paratively delicate skull it adds anotlier to the links which 

 bind these two series of genera to each other. From Scaptonyx, 

 the only allied genus geographically near it, it is at once 

 separable by its more modified manus, fewer teeth, much 

 laiger i^ , and its Desman-like lower incisors. 



Scapanulus oiceni, sp. n. 



Bulk about half that of TaJpa europwa. Colour of body 

 exactly as in that animal, the lower surface almost imper- 

 ceptibly lighter than the upper. Head rather paler. Hands 

 pale brown above, with whitish edges. Feet brown proxi- 

 mally, white on the digits. Tail long, thick, well-haired, 

 grey-brown with rather lighter tip. 



Skull and teeth as described above. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 108 mm. ; tail 38 ; hind foot 14. 



Skull : greatest length 28*2 ; condylo-basal length 27*5 ; 



