CROCIDURA. DESMANA. NEUROTRICHUS. 479 



Spider Shrew. 



I. Adult — P. "Germany." Ward's Nat. Scien. Establ., Roch- 

 ester, N. Y. 



Subgenus B. Pachynra. 



833. Crocidura madagascariensis Coquerel. 



Sorex madagascariensis Coc\}iQV., Ann. Scien. Nat., ix, 1848, p. 193, 

 pi. II, fig. I. 

 Madagascar Shrew. 



I. Adult — P. Madagascar. C. I. Forsyth-Major. 



Family VI. Talpidse. Moles. 



Subfamily I. Desmaninse. 

 Genus 242. Desinana. 



Desmana Giilden., Besch. Berl. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, iii, 1777, 



p. 108. Type Castor moschafus Linnaeus. 

 Mygalus Retz., Animad. Class. Mamm. Linn., 1796, p. 22. 

 My gale G. Cuv., Legons Anat. Comp., i, 1800, tabl. i. 

 Myogalea Fisch., S}^. Mamm., 1829, p. 250. 

 Galemys Kaup, Entw.-Gesch. Natiirl. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, 



I, 1829, p. 118. 

 Caprios Wagl., Nat. Syst. Amphib., 1830, p. 14. 

 Myogale Brandt, Wiegm. Archiv f. Naturgesch., i, 1836, p. 176. 



834. Desmana moschata (Linnaeus). 



Castor moschatus Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 59; i, 1766, p. 79. 

 Sorex moschata Pall., Act. Acad. Scien. Imp. Petrop., 11, 1781, 

 p. 315. Id. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1831, p. i. 

 The Desman. 



I. Adalt — P. Sarepta, South Russia. Ward's Nat. Scien. E'.- 

 tabl., Rochester, N. Y. 



Genus 243. Neiirotriclius. SlireAv-like Moles. 



Neurotrichus Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1880, p. 441. Type Uro- 

 trichus gibhsii Baird. 



