ON A NEW GENUS OF iNSECTIVOttA. 319 



Ptilotis maemoeata, sp. n. 



Similis p. cinerecs, 8clater, sed minor et plumis gutturis et pfse- 

 pectoris albido marginatis distinguenda. Long. tot. 7, culm. 1-05, 

 alse 3-8, caudse 37, tarsi 1-05. 



Fam. TiMELiiDJ]. 



Efpetes pulchee, sp. n. 



Affinis E. castanonoto,^dl\dt,dL.,&Qdi pileo rufescenti-brunneo nee 

 dorso concolori, et fascia guttnrali nigra gulam albam cingente 

 absents. 



Pam. FEINGILLIDiE. 

 MlJNIA OEANDIS, Sp. n. 



Similis M.jagot^i, sed multo major et pileo colloque totis cum 

 corpore subtus toto nigerrimis, hypocbondriis castaneia exceptis, 

 distinguenda. Long. tot. 4, alse 2'2, tarsi 065. 



Description of a new Genus and two new Species of Insecti- 

 vora from Madagascar. By Oldeield Thomas, E.Z.S., 

 Zool. Depart. British Museum. (Communicated by Dr. J. 

 Mtjeie, r.L.S.) 



[Eead March 2, 1882.] 



In tbe collection of Mammalia recently brought by the Eev. "W. 

 Deans Cowan from Eastern Betsileo there occur a large number 

 of two small shrew-like animals — one, of which there are no 

 less than thirty-nine examples, having a most extraordinarily 

 long tail, from two to three times the length of the head and 

 body ; and the other, represented by eight specimens, with a tail 

 rather shorter than the trunk. These two species, at first sight 

 so different, prove, on a closer examination, to belong to the same 

 genus, and that a hitherto undescribed one. It belongs to the 

 well-known Madagascar family Centetidse. I propose to call it 



Miceogale, gen. nov. 



Dentition:—!. |, C. \, P.M. |, M. |x2=40. 



Upper incisors small, the first two slightly exceeding the third in height, 

 each with one posterior secondary cusp, and the second one with two 

 anterior secondary cusps of equal height, one internal and the other ex- 

 ternal. Canines very slightly larger than the first incisors, with minute 

 anterior and posterior secondary cusps. Premolars small, the first hnear, 

 the second and third triangular, all with anterior and posterior secondary 

 cusps. Molars triangular, somewhat like those of Centetes on a small scale, 

 but each with a well-marked internal basal ledge, and along the outer 

 side three or four variously proportioned minute cusps. 



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