HOPLOMYS. 105 



Genl, Char. Similar to P. centralis but more red, and less grayish 

 and yellowish buff. Tail shorter. 



Color. Head and upperparts mixed black and orange (black most 

 prominent at back of head) , giving all these parts a reddish appearance ; 

 outer side of fore legs, and from knee to foot on hind legs creamy white; 

 flanks like upperparts ; entire underparts and inner side of legs creamy 

 white; hands and feet whitish; tail at base hairy, colored like back, 

 remainder bare, black above, paler below. Ex type in United States 

 National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 380; tail, 130; hind foot, 55 (skin). 

 Skull: Total length, 647; Hensel, 43.9; zygomatic width (broken); 

 intertemporal width, (broken); length of nasals, 23.9; length of upper 

 molar series, 9.3; length of mandible, 26; length of low r er molar series, 

 9.6. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Genus Hoplomys. 



Hoplomys Allen, Bull. Am. 'Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIV, 1908, p. 649. 

 Type Hoplomys truei Allen. 



Hoplomys truei Allen. 



Hoplomys truei Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIV, 1908, 

 p. 650. 



Type locality. Lavala, Matagalpa, Mexico. 



Color. Upperparts and head pale rusty brown, the spines black; 

 flanks grayish brown; outer side of limbs dusky grayish brown; 

 hands and feet whitish ; entire underparts and inner side of limbs pure 

 white; tail naked, dark grayish brown above, whitish beneath; ears 

 black. Ex type in American Museum of Natural History. 



Measurements. Total length, 550; tail, 170; hind foot, 53. Skull: 

 Occipito-nasal length, 55; zygomatic width, 27; length of nasals, 20; 

 length of upper molar series, 9.4; length of mandible, 25.8. Ex type 

 in American Museum of Natural History. 



Hoplomys goethalsi Goldman. 



Hoplomys goethalsi Goldm., Smith. Misc. Coll., LVI, No. 36, 1912, 

 p. 10. 



Type locality. Rio Indio, near Gatun, Canal Zone, Panama. 



Genl. Char. Similar to H. truei, but cranial characters different; 

 zygomata heavier, jugal broader, the inferior border produced ante- 

 riorly, nearly to antorbital foramen, and prolonged posteriorly into a 

 hook. 



