TALPID.E 629 
living in a similar manner in the region of the Pyrenees, is very 
much smaller, has a round tail, and a proportionally longer snout. 
Fossil remains of Jf. moschata occur in the Norfolk Forest bed, and 
were originally described under the name of Palwospalar. The 
genus is also represented in the Middle and Lower Miocene of the 
Continent. 
Urotrichus.1—Dentition : i 2, c+, p 4 or 3,m3; total 36. Feet 
not webbed; manus broad. Habits fossorial. The Mole-Shrews, 
Fic. 289.—The Desman (Myogale moschata). 4 natural size. 
as these animals are called, are represented by C. ¢ulpvides of the 
mountains of Japan and C7 gibbsi of North America. These two 
species are small and closely allied animals; the American form 
(which it has been proposed to separate subgenerically as Neuro- 
trichus) having p 3. 
Uropsilus.*—Dentition : 2 #, ¢ 4, p 3, m 3; total 34. Manus 
narrow; tail naked and scaly. Habits cursorial. The single 
species, U. svricipes, from the borders of Tibet, is a slate-coloured 
animal with the external form of a Shrew but the skull of a Mole. 
1 Temminck, Fw Japonica, vol. i, p. 22 (1842). ? Milne-Edwards, 
rch. du Museum, vol. vii. Bull. p. 92 (1872). 
