D PHILANDER. METACHIRUS. 



Type locality. Guatemala. Type in British Musemn. 



Color. "Colours very deep and strong throughout. General 

 colour rich cinnamon-rufous, the lighter markings yellow instead of 

 grey. Head yellow to level of ears. Withers-mark well developed, 

 strongly contrasted, huffy yellow. Under surface pale buffy yellow, 

 the belly tending more towards ferruginous. Fore limbs to wrists 

 buffy yellow. Hind limbs deep ferruginous. Naked part of tail 

 wholly dark brown to end." (Thomas, /. c.). 



Measurements. None given. 



Species not seen by me. 



Philander nicaraguae (Thomas). 



M annosa cinerea nicaragua Thos., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th 

 Sen, XVI, 1905, p. 313. 



Type locality. Bluefields, Nicaragua. Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Similar to C. alstoni Allen; fur shorter, the hairs of 

 back 8-9 mm. long; tail very long. Skull as in C. alstoni. 



Color. Above grayish brown; beneath cream-buff; hairs of chest, 

 middle of abdomen and inguinal region buffy to their bases; hands 

 and feet pale gray; tail blackish for three-fifths its length, remainder 

 of tip white. 



Measurements. Total length, 448; tail, 281; hind foot, 28.5; 

 car, 29. Skull: Basal length, 42.7; greatest breadth, 25; length of 

 molars, 7.7. 



Genus Metachirus (4). 



Metachirus nudicaudatus dentaneus Goldman. 



Metachirus nudicaudatus dentaneus Goldman, Smith. Misc. Coll.., 

 LVI, 1912, No. 36, p. 2. 



Type locality. Gatun, Canal Zone, Panama. 



Genl. Char. Similar to M. n. col out hi an us, but dentition heavier; 

 zygoma lighter and first three upper molars more dec] >]y emarginate. 



Color. Top of head black; orbital rings and sides of muzzle black- 

 ish; cheeks, spot above eyes, and about cars ochraccous-bulT; upper- 

 parts and outer side of hind legs wood-brown; dorsal line blackish; 

 shoulders suffused with plumbeous, caused by the' dark under fur 

 showing; underparu and inner side of hind legs yellowish white; 

 outer side of arms grayish tinged with buff; hands dusky, fingers and 

 outer side of tarsus whitish; hind feel white; tail above dusky, 

 beneath paler, tip white. ICx type in United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 597; tail, 332; hind foot, 48. 

 Shull: Occipi to-nasal length, 61.2; Hcnscl, 56.9; zygomatie width, 



