MAMMALIA. 
Mamm. 25 
INSECTIVORA. 
^Dobson, G. E. A Monograph of the Imectivora , systematic and ana- 
tomical. Part I. including the Families Erinaceidce, Centetidce , and 
Solenodontidce. 1882. 
This, perhaps the most important work that has appeared during the 
past year, is designed to be a complete natural history of the whole order 
Insectivora. Not only is the systematic part fully worked out, with 
synopses, descriptions, and synonymies of the species, but the anatomy 
of every form obtainable is examined and described, special attention 
being paid to the myology. 
The general arrangement put forward by the author is as follows : — 
Suborder i. Dermoptera. 
Fam. i. Galeopithecid.ee. 
Sub-order n. Bestial (. Insectivora verci). 
Group i. 
Super-fam. Tupaioidea. 
Fam. ii. Tupaiidai. 
Fam. hi. Macroscelididai : Macroscelidinai , Rhynchocyonince. 
Super-fam. Erinaeeoidea. 
Fam. iv. Erinaceidai : Erinaceince , Gymnuringi. 
Super-fam. Soricoidea. 
Fam. v. Talpidai : Myogalince , Talpina : . 
Fam. vi. Soricidce. 
Group ii. 
Super-fam. Centetoidea. 
Fam. vn. Centeiidce : Oryzorictince } Cenletinai , 
Fam. vili. Solenodontidce. 
Fam. IX. Potamogalidce : Geogalince, Potamogalince. 
Super-fam. Chrysochloridea. 
Fam. X. Chrysochloridce. 
These groups are not treated of in the above order, but the Erinaceidai 
are taken as typical of the first group of Insectivora vera, and the Cente- 
tidce and Solcnodontidce of the second. The anatomy of other groups to 
follow will thus be easily comparable with that of one or the other of 
these representative families. One species is described as new, and a 
second one has its “nomen nudum” confirmed by a proper description 
(see Erinaceidce). The part is illustrated with 7 anatomical plates drawn 
by the author. 
-^Trouessart, E. L. La distribution geographique, la classification et 
los aflinit6s dos mammiferes insectivores. Rev. Sci. xxx. p. 513. 
An exposition of the recent work on this Order, done by the Author, 
Mivart, Gill, Cope, Dobson, and others. 
Macroscelidiml 
~\Macroscelides. Notes on the species of this genus; Huet, in Revoil’s 
Fauue et Flore des Pays Qomalis. Contains further notes on M. revoili, 
Huet, and descriptions of tho other species of the genus. 
