18R MAMMALIA. 



224«. A stuffed adult in bad condition. No. 264A of 

 BIyth's Catalogae. Presented by A. D. Bartlett, Esq., 1843. 



Genus TALPA, Linn., 1766. 

 225. Talpa europea. 



Talpa eurspea. Unn., Siist. Sat. 12th ed. 1766, p. 73 ; Schreher; 

 Sdugeth. Bd. iii, 1778, p. 558, pi. 156 ; Blyth, Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. 

 Mus. 1863, p. 88. 



Eab. Europe generally, extending to Northern Asia. 

 225a. A stuffed specimen; No. 268Ao£ BlytVs Catalogue. 

 England. Presented by A. D. Bartlett, Esq., 1843. 



b8i:c. Two skeletons, Nos, 268 B & C of Blyth's Cata- 

 logue. One presented by Mr. W. Masters, 1844 ; the other 

 no history. 



d. The skin of an adult. Hunter's Bog, Arthur's Seat, 

 Edinburgh. Presented by Dr. J. Anderson, 3id December, 

 1.880. 



.226. Talpa micrura. 



Assam mole, McClelland, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. vii, 1838, p. 464. 



Talpa micrura, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soj;. Beng. vol. x, 1840, p. 910 ; 

 Gray. List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus. 1843, p. 75 ; Blyth, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. vol. xix, 1850, p. 215, plate iv,fig. 2 (skull) ; Horsfield, 

 Cat. Mamm. JB. Ind. Cos. Mus. 1851, p. 129 ; Wagner, Sehreber 

 Saugeth. Suppl. Bd. v, 1856, p. 578; Blyth, Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. 

 Mus. 1863, p. 88 ; A. Milne Edward's Becherch. des Mammif., 

 1868-74, p. 284. 



Talpa cryptura, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xii, 1843, p. 928. 



Hah. Nipal, Sikkim, and Assam. 



Uniformly velvety brown, with a silvery grey gloss. Snout 

 almost nude, being sparsely clad on its sides with bristly 

 hairs, each seated on an eminence, in the centre of a well- 

 defined pit. A broad mesial linear tract On the upper surface 

 of the snout, quite devoid of hairs. The extremity of the 

 snout with a transverse furrow below the nostril, and a tumid 

 fold of skin below the furrow. Eye very minute and 

 covered with membrane; eyelids not defined. Claws stout 

 OQ the fore feet, and moderately long. Tail about one-third 

 of the greatest breadth of the manus, not inobbed at its 

 end and only sparsely clad. 



The skull of this species resembles the skull of the other 

 Asiatic moles, with the exception of T. wngura and T. insularis, 

 in having four pairs of inferior incisors, but difEers from T. 

 leucura, &e., in possessing four pairs of upper premolars, and in 

 this respect it resembles T. macrura and T. longirostris. 



