MAMMALIA. 729 



ring. Compare HUSCHKE Ueber die Zdhne von Cladobates, OKEN'S Isis, 

 1827, s. 758, 760, and for the species from the Indian Archipelago SCHLEGEL 

 and SAL. MUELLEB in Verh. over de not. Gesch. enz., Manim. pp. 159 

 1 68, PI. 26, 27. 



Sp. Cladobates ferruginous, Tupaia ferruginea RAFFL., GulsR. Iconogr., 

 Mammif. PI. 10, fig. 4; Borneo, Java, Sumatra; Cladobates murinus, 

 Hylogale murina SCHL. and MUEL. 1. 1. Tab. 26, fig. 5 ; Borneo, &c. 



A> 



Hylomys SAL. MUELL. Incisors ^ , two middle upper larger, 



no A. A 



remote by a space from the lateral, molars 5-^-5 , true ^^ , with 



o o o o 



several cusps. Xose produced into a mobile proboscis, subrecurved 

 at the point, with nostrils lateral. Eyes moderate. Ears large, 

 subnude. Hind feet longer, all pentadactylous, with three middle 

 toes longer, with claws compressed, incurved, acute. Tail very 

 short, thinly covered with short hair. 



Sp. Hylomys sv.iUus SAL. MUEL., Verhand. over de not. Gesch. enz., Mamm. 

 Tab. 26, fig. i; (the skull and teeth Tab. 25, fig. 4 7), pp. 153, 157; a 

 small animal, less than 6" long from the point of the snout to the end of 

 the tail, which is only i^" long; nothing is known of its mode of life, 

 except that it feeds on insects ; it was observed in Java and Sumatra at a 

 height of 1200 to 2000 feet, and seems to be rare. The skull, with some 

 conformity to that of the preceding genus, has, however, no bony ring at 

 the back of the orbit. 



Family XL. Erinaceina. Back protected by spines or rigid 

 seta? with setae intermixed. Feet pentadactylous, not fossorial. 

 Tail very short, or none. 



Centetes ILLIG. Teeth (38 or 40) incisors ^ for ~] , canines 

 1 _ 1 b \ b/ 7 



- , conical, large, incurved, separated above and below from the 



incisors and molars by a void space, molars -^ ^ of which ~^ 



b b 4 4 



resemble true molars. Snout elongate, nose proboscidean. Ears short, 

 rounded. Tail none. Back covered with spines and setae inter- 



. , , 2-2 3-3 1-1 3-3 



mixed. (Dent. form. i. ^ ^, or g^>, c. j , p. 3^, 



m. !^| = 38, or40.) 



Sp. Centetes setosus DESM., Erinaceus ecaudatus GM., BUFF. xn. PI. 56; le 

 tanrec (the young animal is figured in GUEB. Mag. de Zool. 1839, Mammif. 

 PI. i); Centetes semispinoms Cuv., BUFF. Suppl. m. PI. 37, GUB. 



