626 INSECTITORA 
Shrew from the Cape, which is quite unique among the whole 
family in having a rudimental seventh pair of lower teeth. 
Crocidura..—Dentition : 7 3, ¢ 4, p SS m %; total 28 or 30. 
Male or female generative organs forming a short cloaca with the 
anal orifice. Tail long, with a mixture of long and short hairs. 
Other characters as in J/yossrev. Habits terrestrial. 
This Old World genus includes over seventy nominal species, 
which have been divided into four subgenera, (. aranea and C. 
suaveolens of Continental Europe, and ¢’. cerulea of India, being well- 
known forms. The species are very variable and difficult to dis- 
criminate. C. aranea has a very wide distribution, ranging from 
Central and Southern Europe to North Africa and Central Asia. 
The name Musk-Rat is popularly applied in India to C. ce@rulea, 
which frequents houses at night, hunting round rooms for cockroaches 
and other insects, and occasionally uttering a sharp shrill cry. The 
strong musky odour of this animal arises from large glands situated 
beneath the skin of the side of the body, a chars distanes behind 
the fore limbs. This odour is so powerful and penetrating that it 
is popularly believed in India that if the animal runs over a corked 
bottle of wine or beer it will infect the fluid within. Jerdon says 
that certainly many bottles are met with quite undrinkable from 
the peculiar musky odour of their contents, but, rejecting the 
possibility of its passing through the glass, he attributes it to 
the corks having been infected previously to bottling, stating in 
corroboration of this view that he has never found the odour in 
liquors bottled in England. 
Liiplomesodon.°—Dentition: i 3, ¢ 3, p 3, m 2: total 26. Tail 
moderate ; soles of the feet hairy. Other characters as in Crocidura. 
Habits terrestrial. 
This genus is represented only by D. pulchellus of the Kirghiz 
steppes, which is allied to the following form, although retaining 
the normal Shrew-like external contour. 
<fnurosorer.3—Dentition: i 2, ¢ 3, p 3, m 3: total 26. Ear 
very short ; tail rudimental or short; soles of feet naked. Other 
characters as in Diplomesodon. 
The two species of this genus are Mole-like terrestrial forms, of 
which the typical 1. sqguamipes occurs in Tibet, while f. assamensis 
is found in Assam. The latter species has the longer tail. The 
habits of both are probably fossorial. 
Chimarrogale.»—Dentition : i 3, ¢ 4, p 3, m 8; total 28. Penis 
broad, with lateral processes; male or female ‘generative organs 
opening within the same integumentary ring as the anal orifice. 
1 Wagler, Jsis, 1832, p. 278, ? Brandt, in Lehmann’s Reise.-Zool. Anh. 
p. 299 (1852). 3 Milne-Edwards, Compt:s Rendus, vol. xx. p. 341 (1870). 
* Anderson, Journ. As, Soc, Bengal, vol. xlvi. p. 282 877). 
