12 Mamm. 
MAMMALIA. 
All the super-families, families, and sub-families are characterized, and' 
the principal features of the two American families (^Talpidta and Sori- 
cidai) are contrasted in parallel columns. 
E. D. Cope thinks the name Insectivora should be only used for a 
sub-order of Bunotheria, ord. n., which he divides into five sub- 
orders — I. Creodonta \cf. Zool. Rec. xii. p. 9] ; II. Mesodonta, sub- 
ord. n. (foss.), containing Tomitherium, &c., removed from the Lemurs; 
III. Insectivora; IV. Tillodonta ; V. TAiNioooNTA, sub-ord. n. 
(foss.), consisting of Ectoganus and Calamodon [cf. Zool. Rec. xii. p. lOJ. 
P. Ac. Philad. 1876, pp. 39, 88 & 89. 
Tupaiid^l 
Tapaia. A. Gunther reviews and characterizes the species, and names 
ihree varieties of T. tana, vars. tana^ speciosa, and chnjsura ; the last is 
figured. P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 425-427, pi. xxxvi. 
ErINACETDA!]. 
Erinaceus macracanthus figured ; W. T. Blanford, “ Eastern Persia,” 
ii. pi. i. 
Gymnura rafflesi. A white race, inhabiting Labuan and Sarawak, is 
named var. Candida ; A. Gunther, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 425. 
Chrysochlorid^. 
Chrysochloris trevelyani. Its very remarkable skull described and 
figured [c/. Zool. Rec. xii. p. 9]; A. Gunther, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. pp. 
346-348, pi. XX. 
SoRICIDii. 
Crocidura dolichura, sp. n., W. Peters, MB. Ak. Bcrl. 1876, p. 475, 
pi. ii. West Africa. 
TTLLODONTIA.^^ 
ANCniPPODIDiE. 
0. C. Marsh further illustrates the characters of his order Tillodoii- 
tia [cf. Zool. Rec. xii. p. 9] by describing the remains of Tillulhervum. 
The brain cavity was small,* but proportionately larger than in Dino- 
ceras [cf. iw/rd, p. 16]. Am. J. Sci. (3) xi. pp. 249-252, pis. viii. & ix. 
Translated, J. Zool, v. pp. 244-248, pi. xi. Cf. ^N. H. Flower, P. R. 
Inst. viii. pp. 122-124. 
E. D. Cope makes Tillodonta a sub-order of Bunotheria [supra, 
Insectivora]. 
Dryptodon, g. n., foss,, allied to Sfylinodoii ] type, D. crassus, sp. n., 
Lower Eocene of New Mexico. O. C. Marsh, Am. J. Sci. (3) xii. 
p. 403. 
