78 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON HEMICENTETES. [Jail. 17, 



its posterior margin thickened ; a large perforation in each exoccipi- 

 tal ; anterior palatine foramen very large ; infraorbital foramen 

 bounded above by a broad spiculum of bone ; the very small lachry- 

 mal foramen opens at the anterior side of the upper end of the 

 spiculum ; first upper incisor the largest and longest of all the 

 teeth ; second upper incisor very small. Cervical neurapophyses 

 mere filaments ; many caudal vertebrae ; pes rather or very elon- 

 gated, both absolutely and compared with manus. 

 Hab. Eastern and Western Europe. 



Urotrichus*, Temminck. 



I-iEi» C. \Z\, P.M.—, M. gj. Lachrymal foramen imme- 

 diately above the middle of the infraorbital foramen ; no large exoc- 

 cipital perforation ; infraorbital foramen bounded above by a very 

 slender spiculum of bone ; second upper incisor of considerable size, 

 though not nearly so large as the first incisor. Few caudal vertebrae ; 

 pes not elongated. 



Hab. Japan and Western N. America. 



Soricid.e. 





Cranium broad behind, tapering forwards ; greatest breadth behind 

 the glenoid surfaces ; no postorbital process ; occiput sloping much 

 forwards ; no pterygoid fossa ; no zygoma ; pterygoid region not 

 inflated ; mesopterygoid fossa ending posteriorly in no excavation of 

 the basis cranii ; tympanic a mere ring, not forming a bulla ; no 

 alisphenoid canal ; a large aperture on each side of the base of the 

 skull ; large and anteroverted postglenoid processes ; foramen 

 rotundum and sphenoidal fissure represented by one opening ; infra- 

 orbital foramen considerable, limited above by a thick bar of bone ; 

 inside of ascending ramus of mandible with a peculiar and deep ex- 

 cavation ; articular surface of condyle looking backwards ; angle very 

 attenuated ; first incisor much larger than the others, and always 

 with two cusps ; upper canine always smaller than the smallest upper 



* Temminck, ' Fauna Japon.' i. p. 22, tab. iv. figs. 6-11 ; Wagner, Sehreber, 

 Suppl. v. p. 569 ; Spencer F. JBaird, ' Mammals of America,' p. 76, pi. xxviii. 



t DeBlainville, ' Insectivores,' pis. ii., v., and x. ; F. Cuvier, ' Dents des Mam- 

 miftres,' no. xx. ; Owen, 'Odontography,' pi. ex. fig. 4; Duvernov, Magasin 

 de Zoologie, 1842 ; Wagner, Schreb. Suppl. i. p. 47, v. pp. 539 ami 802; Dr. 

 E. Brandt, Eussian Memoir of 1865, before referred to; Spencer F. Baird, 

 ' Mammals of America,' pp. 7-56. 



