MAMMALIA. 725 



BRANDT Bemerkungen uber den innern Bau des Wuychochol, WIEGMAKS'B 

 Archiv fur Naturgesch. 1836, 1. s. 176 182. Myogalea pyrenaica GEOFFB. 

 SAIXT-HILAIKE, Ann. du Mus. xvii. PI. iv. figs, i, 3, 4, 5, Mim. du Mus. 

 I. PI. xv. figs. 10 12 (the skull and the teeth) ; smaller than the pre- 

 ceding, tail as long as the body, compressed at the tip only ; this species 

 lives at the foot of the Pyrenees. They are aquatic animals, living in 

 holes of which the entrance is in the water. 



Macroscelides SMITH, (Macroscelts FISCHER, Ehinomys LICH- 

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TENST.). Incisor teeth ^ small, with upper middle larger ; true 



7 y n n g g 



canines none; molars ~ or ^ - , spurious = =-, not longer 

 o ~~ o y ~~ y o ~ o 



than incisors. Nose extended into a long slender proboscis, with 

 nostrils in the extremity, perforated a little obliquely. Eyes mode- 

 rate or somewhat large. Ears large, thinly haired. Fore feet pen- 

 tadactylous, with pollex and outer toe short, raised, the hind feet 

 much longer, with four toes equal and pollex short, raised or none. 

 Claws short, slender, compressed, incurved, acute. Tail long (tumid 

 below behind the base, with glandular follicles in some, or in 

 males alone). 



a) With hind feet pentadactyloits. 



Sp. Macroscelides typicus SMITH, Zocl. Journal, No. xvi. Bullet, des Sc. nat. 

 xvm. 1829, Aout, p. 273, Illustr. of the Zool. of South Afr. Mamm. PI. 

 10 ; Macroscelides rupestris SMITH, Illustr. 1. 1. PI. n, Macroscelides typus 

 ISID. GEOFFB. ST.-HILAIBE, Ann. des Sc. nat. xvm. 1829, pp. 165 173, 

 LESSON Cent. Zool, PI. 12. This and some other species live in the south 

 of Africa. In North Africa near Oran lives another species Macroscelides 

 Rozeti DUVEBNOY, Me"m. de la Soc. d'Hist. nat. de Strasbourg, I. 2, 1833, 

 pp. 123, PI. i. n. 



This genus of animals recalls Parameles amongst the Marsupialia. It 

 agrees with the marsupials in the imperfect ossification of the palate, which 

 is perforated by many holes. 



b) With hind feet tetradactylous. (Sub-genus Petrodromus PETEBS.) 



Sp. Macroscelides tetradactylus, Petrodromus tetradactylus PETEBS, Reise nach 

 Mossamb., Sdugth. Tab. xx. 



Sorex L. (excl. Sorex cristatus and aquaticus). Incisor teeth 



/i 



- , the two middle large, the upper incurved, having at the base 



posteriorly a tubercle, the lower procumbent, acuminate; true 



6-6 5-5 7-7 



; canines none : molars -. T , more seldom = -= or -= = , con- 

 4 4 5 5 5 5 



