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INSECTIVORA. 



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proximal row of the carpus. The pisiform is small. The 

 first digit is nearly as long as the second ; the remainder 

 gradually diminish in length to the fifth. The ungual pha- 

 langes in the ordinary Seals are slender, pointed, slightly 

 curved, and not much compressed. In the Otariidce they are 

 (longed beyond the part which bears the very small claw, 

 id flattened and truncated at the ends, being continued 

 iwards in the living animal as cartilaginous rays, which 

 ipport lobed expansions of the skin. 



WG 90.— Bones of fore-arm and manus of Mole {Talpa europcra), X 2. R radius; 

 U ulna ; j scaphoid ; I lunar; c cuneiform ; / pisiform ; u unciform ; m magnum ; 

 td trapezoid ; tin trapezium ; ce central ; rs radial sesamoid (falciform) ; 1— v the 

 digits. 



Among the Insectivora, the scaphoid and lunar coalesce 



Galeopithecusj Tupaia, Cen fetes, Solenodon, Erinaceus, and 



mnnura. but in most of the other forms these bones are 



