660 



.MONOGKAl'llS OF SOUTH AMERICAN UODENTIA. 



Table CH.—Listof specimens examined of Spehmopuilts hichardsoni var. towksendi — Continued. 



SPERMOPHILUS MOLLIS Kennicott. 

 Short tailed Spermophile. 



Spcrmophilus moW* KENNICOTT, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18G3, 157. 

 SpermophUus townsendi var. mollis Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvi, 1874, 290. 



Specific chars. — Length to base of tail 6.00 to 6.50; of tail to end of 

 vertebrae about 1.75; to end of hairs about 2.50. Above, finely variegated 

 pale yellowish-brown and dusky ; lower parts gray, washed with pale creamy- 

 yellow. Eyelids yellowish-white ; sides of face and neck yellowish-brown ; 

 tail above, likelhe back, edged with whitish, and with a very indistinct dusky 



