EKINACEIM). 17 



Genus CROSSOPUS, Wagler 1 . 



Dentition. Teeth nearly the same in number as in Sorex, but 

 different in colour. 



Cro&iopus! fofctenS (Pallas 2 ). 

 Syn. Sorex fodtens, Pallas. 



Hab. Europe. 



15949, 17653 a. Three portions of the mandible; from the Forest- 



(Fig.) bed of Ostend, near Bacton, Norfolk. One of these speci- 



mens is figured in Owen's ' British Fossil Mammals and 



Birds,' p. 28, fig. 14. Green Collection. Purchased, 1843. 



CroSgopttf rtmtfer (Geoffrey 3 ). 

 Syn. Sorex remifer, Geoffr. 4 



Hab. Europe. 



15949 a, 17653. Two rami of the mandible; from the Forest-bed of 

 (Fig.) Ostend, near Bacton, Norfolk. One of these specimens 

 is figured by Owen in the figure cited. Newton (Geol. 

 Mag. dec. 2, vol. viii. p. 259) expresses some doubt as to 

 the correctness of the specific determination of the present 

 specimens, as well as those referred to the preceding 

 species. Green Collection. Purchased, 1843. 



Family EBINACEID^E. 

 Genus ERINACEUS, Linn. 5 

 Dentition : I. |, C. [, Pm. f, M. |. 



Erinaceus arvernensis, P. Gervais 6 (non Blainv.). 

 Hab. Europe. 



History. The name E. arvernensis was assigned by De Blainville 

 (' Osteographie,' Insectivores, p. 102, pi. xi.) to certain remains from 

 France, which were said by Croizet to exhibit affinities with Tupaia. 

 Subsequently Gervais, in the passage cited, figured certain remains 

 from Auvergne (noticed below) under the same name. Still later 



Isis, 1832, p. 275. 



In Schreber's ' Saugethiere,' vol. iii. p. 571 (1778), Sorex. 



Ann. d. Mus. vol. xvii. p. 182 (1811), Sorex. 4 Loc. tit. 



Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 75 (1766). 



Zool. et Pal. Franchises, 2nd ed. p. 53, figs. 10, 11 (1859). 



