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INSECTIVORA 



locality: head and body, 127-5 (125-130); tail, 29-5 (29-30); 

 hind foot, 18 • 4 (18-18-6). For cranial measurements see Table, 

 p. 19. 



Specimens examined. — Fourteen, from the vicinity of Rome (B.M. and 

 U.S.N.M.) ; also about fifty from the same region in Turin Museum. 



Remarks. — Talpa romana is a well characterized species, 

 readily distinguished from other European moles by its unusually 

 large teeth. 



1. Ostia, Rome. Dr. L. Sambon (c & p). 1. 1. 2. 8. 



(Type of species.) 

 1. Fraseati, Rome. Dr. L. Sambon (c & p). 1. 1. 2. 9. 



t, 9 al. Rome. Genoa Museum (e). 3. 1. 31. 1-2. 



2 S. Rome. (C. Coli.) G. Barrett-Hamilton (p). 11. 1. 2. 1-2. 



Sub-Family DESMANINJE. 



Geographical distribution. — South-western Prance and northern 

 half of Iberian Peninsula ; eastern Russia and western Siberia. 



Characters. — Teeth in front of molars not differentiated by 

 form into incisors, canines, and premolars ; anterior upper 

 incisor greatly enlarged, canine-like, directed downward, its 

 outer edge highly trenchant, the two anterior lower incisors 

 slightly elongated, projecting obliquely forward ; external form 

 less evidently mole-like than in the Talpinse, modified for 

 aquatic life, the much enlarged hind feet with completely webbed 

 toes, the front feet smaller, not peculiar in form ; tail long ; 

 muzzle depressed. 



Remarks. — The sub-family Desmaninse contains the genera 

 Desmana of Russia and Siberia, and Galemys of the Iberian 

 Peninsula and south-western France, strictly aquatic animals 

 not distantly related to the American moles'. The anterior 

 teeth present a much higher degree of specialization than that 

 met with in the Talpinse. 



Genus GALEMYS Kaup. 



1829. Galemys Kaup, Entw.-Gesch. u. Natiirl. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, I, 



p. 118 (Mygale pyrenaica Geoff roy). 

 1846. Galomys Agassiz, Nom. Zool., Index Univ., p. 149 (Emendation of 



Galemys). 

 1849. Mygalina I. Geoff roy, D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat., iv, p. 709 



(Mygale pyrenaica Geoff roy). 



Type species. — Mygale pyrenaica Geoffroy. 



Geographical distribution. — Northern half of Iberian Peninsula, 

 and Pyrenean region of south-western France. 



Characters. — Tail flattened laterally at distal extremity, else- 

 where terete ; unicuspid teeth slender, their width conspicuously 

 less than height of crown ; main cusp of large premolar trenchant 

 anteriorly ; brain-case without unusual ridges. 



