CARNARIA. ’ 85 
below; spotted and striped with various shades of grey when 
young. From the Molucca islands, straits of Sunda, &c. 
All the other Carnaria have the mamme situated under the 
abdomen. 
FAMILY II. 
INSECTIVORA. ' 
The animals of this family, like the Cheiroptera, have 
grinders studded with conical points, and lead a nocturnal or 
subterraneous life. ‘Their principal food is Insects, and in 
cold climates many of them pass the winter in a torpid state. 
Unlike the Bats, they have no lateral membranes, although 
they always have clavicles. Their feet are short, and their 
motions feeble; the mammzx are placed under the abdomen, 
and the penis in a sheath. None of them have a cecum, and 
in walking they all place the whole sole of the foot on the 
ground. 
They differ from each other by the relative position and 
proportions of their incisors and canini. 
Some have long incisors in front, followed by other incisors 
and canini, all, even shorter than the molares, a kind of den- 
tition of which the ‘Tarsiers, among the Quadrumana, have 
already given us an example, and which somewhat approx- 
imates these animals to the Rodentia. Others have large sepa- 
‘rated canini, between which are placed small incisors, the 
most usual disposition of these parts among the Quadrumana 
and the Carnaria; and these two systems of dental arrangement 
are found in genera, otherwise very similar in the teguments, 
shape of the limbs, and mode of life. 
Erinacevus, Lin. 
The body of the Hedgehog is covered with spines instead of hairs. 
The skin of the back is furnished with such muscles, as, by inclin- 
ing the*head and feet towards the abdomen, enable the animal to 
shut himself up in it, as in a purse, presenting his spines on all sides 
to the enemy. The tail is very short, and there are five toes to each 
foot. There are six incisors in cach jaw, the middle ones being the 
