SORICID.E. 627 
Tail long, with an inferior fringe of clongated hairs; cars small ; 
plantar callosities simple; toes free. Habits aquatic. 
This genus includes (. imulayica of the Himalaya and CL platy- 
cephalus of Japan, Both have the feet fringed, and, together with 
the next genus, may be regarded as the eastern analogues of (ruxso- 
pus among the ved-toothed series ; their structural resemblances to 
the latter, if Dr. Dobson’s classification is a natural one, being 
probably due to adaptation for a similar mode of life. 
Nectogale\—Dentition : 48,64, p4, m3; total 28. External 
Fia, vss.—Nectogale cleyans. (From Milne-Kdwards, Mammif. Tibet.) 
curs not forming a conch, valvular, Plantar callosities forming 
adhesive pads; toes webbed. Other characters as in Chimarroqule, 
Habits aquatic. 
The sole representative of this genus is the Tibetan Water- 
Shrew GY. elegans, Fig. 288), which differs from all other members 
of the family by the webbed toes and the presence of the disc-like 
adhesive pads on the under surface of the feet, which are believed 
to enable the creature to hold on to smooth rocks or stones in the 
heds of the streams it inhabits. This species is probably more 
completely aquatic in its habits than the allied Chimarroqule. 
Fossil Sorividie,—Remains of existing species of Soree or Crosso- 
pus ocent in the Norfolk Forest bed, while an extinet species has 
heen found in the Pleistocene of Sardinia. (recidura occurs in the 
eavern-deposits of Madras. Shrews from the Miocene and Upper 
! Milne-Edwards, Comptes Rendus, vol. xx. p. 341 (1870). 
