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posteriorly ; no cervical hypapophyses ; spines of dorsal and lumbar 

 vertebrae small ; no hyperapophyses ; autogenous hypapophysial 

 ossicles beneath the interspaces of the lumbar vertebrae ; manubrium 

 keeled ; scapula long and very narrow ; radius and ulna distinct ; an 

 os intermedium ; no symphysis pubis ; tibia and fibula confluent 

 below ; five digits to each extremity ; no caecum. 



Hab. Europe, Asia, including Japan, and North America. 



Talpina. 



No distinct pterygoid fossa * ; pterygoid region inflated ; coronoid 

 process not very elevated ; spiculum of bone bounding infraorbital 

 foramen above very narrow ; as many as three incisors above ; 

 manubrium very elongated ; clavicles very short and broad ; no 

 metacromion process ; a sickle-shaped carpal ossicle. 



Hab. Europe, Asia, North America. 



TalpaI, Linnaeus. 



L 2 -WiW 2 > c - & ( ? ) p - M - S M - S Cranium ver y sli s htl y 



constricted between the orbits ; palate with no posterior thick- 

 ening, but a small defect of ossification on each side ; a very 

 large pterotic ; a fissure bordering epiotic ; posterior palatine fora- 

 men large ; anterior palatine foramen small ; all the incisors very 

 small ; upper canine very elongated ; lower canine small ; posterior 

 cusps of premolars very small. Five or six lumbar vertebrae ; caudal 

 vertebrae few ; ultimate phalanges of manus much the longest, bifur- 

 cating. 



Ha b. Europe and Asia. 



Condylura §, Illiger. 



I. 3~3> f- i— 1' P-M. Y~jt M. j^. No fissure bordering epiotic ; 

 meatus auditorius with a very large external opening ; muzzle much 

 attenuated anteriorly ; first and third upper incisors much larger 

 than the second ; upper canine very small ; lower canine much 

 larger than lower incisors ; lower third incisor much smaller than 

 the first or second ; posterior cusps of premolars very large. Seven 



* I cannot be sure as to Condylura in this respect. 



t De Blainville, ' Osteographie : Insect ivores,' pis. i., v., & ix. ; F. Cuvier, 

 ' Dents des Mammiferes,' no. xxii. ; Owen, ' Odontography,' pi. ex. fig. 3 ; C. 

 Giebel, Zeitsehr. f. d. ges. Naturwiss. Halle, Bd. xii. 1858, pp. 395-450; Wag- 

 ner, Schreb. Supplem. ii. p. 106, v. p. 576. 



J Mr. C. Spence Bate, F.R.S., in a paper read at the Odontological Society of 

 Great Britain (published in the 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist,' for June 1867), 

 states that the tooth here called canine is implanted in the prremaxilla. The 

 conflicting nature, however, of the remarks contained in that paper render other 

 observations necessary. 



§ De Blainville, ' Insectivores/ pis. i., v., & ix.; F. Cuvier, 'Dents des Mam- 

 miferes,' no. xxii. bis ; Wagner, Schreb. Supplem. ii. p. 1 13, v. p. 574 ; S. F. 

 Baird, ' Mammals of America,' p. 71 . 



