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Show 1892.] AND BATRACHIANS FROM BARBARY. Measurements of Macroscelides roseti. Tip of snout to vent Vent to tip of tail without hairs... Tip of snout to upper incisors Length of hind foot with claws ... Height of ear Breadth of ear 6- millim. 104 114 14 31 29 20 6- millim. 94 112 13 31 29 20 5- millim. 108 110 13 32 31 20 2- millim. 105 117 14 32 30 22 2- millim. 95 100 14 32 28 19 There were two foetuses in the right horn of the uterus of one of these females, a similar number having been recorded by M . Lataste in an individual which he examined. In his specimen they were still very young on the 10th May, whereas in m y specimen, captured in June, they were covered with hair and evidently mature. The weight of one of the foetuses was 28 grains without the placenta. Family II. SORICIDTE. Genus C R O C I D U R A , Wagler. 2. C R O C I D U R A A R A N E A , Linnaeus ; Lataste, Etude de la Faune des Vertebres de Barbarie, 1885, p. 8 2; id. Cat. Crit. des Mammif. Ape'lagiques Sauvages de la Tunisie, 1887, p. 6. 1 $ , environs of Algiers. Snout to vent 55 millim.; vent to tip of tail 35 millim.; hind foot and claws 13 millim. Order R O D E N T I A. Family I. MURID^E. Subfamily Gerbillince. Genus G E R B I L L U S , Desmarest. 1. G E R B I L L U S CAMPESTRIS, Levaillant; Lataste, Etude de la Faune des Vertebres de Barbarie, 1885, p. 142; id. Cat. Crit. des Mammif. Apelagiques Sauvages de la Tunisie, 1887, p. 24. 1 3 , Duirat, Tunisia. Measurements of G. campestris. <S. millim. Tip of snout to vent 90 Vent to tip of tail without hairs 114 Height of ear 15 Length of hind foot with claws 27 Occiput to vent 32 This form in its four siibarticular and two tarsal tubercles= Dipodillus. |