SOLENODON. 



1 1 3. Soleiiodoii. 



567 



Solenodon Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Scien., St. Petersb., 6th Ser 

 ii, 1833, p. 459. Type Solenodon paradoxus Brandt. 



Characters same as those of the Family. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Size large ; nose long, extending beyond mouth. 



a. Forehead, cheeks, throat, and sides of neck PAGE 

 yellowish white 5. cubanus 567 



b. Forehead, sides of head, and neck yellowish 



brown, mixed with gray and ferru gin ecus . . .5. paradoxus 568 



FIG. LXXXIV. SOLENODON CUBANUS. 



No. 134 Field Columbian Mus. Coll. 



537. cubanus (Solenodon), Peters, Abh. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 



1863, p. 2, pi. in. 

 ALMIQUI. 



Type locality. Island of Cuba. 



Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 



GenL Char. Nose long, extending beyond the mouth; tail long, 

 scaly, naked. 



Color. Forehead and stripe extending behind and beyond each 

 ear, cheeks, throat and sides of neck yellowish white; top of head, 

 upper parts and sides of body, outer side of arms and thighs jet black 

 with numerous long white hairs scattered irregularly on sides and 

 under parts, and extending beyond the others; under parts black 

 with orange buff patches on lower part of chest and on the abdomen ; 

 inner side and top of arms from elbows, and legs from ankles sparsely 



