568 SOLENODON. 



covered with short black hairs; nails white, very long on the ringers; 

 fingers and toes blackish brown, nearly naked; tail naked; black; 

 ears naked, black; under lip and end of nose naked. 



Measurements. Total length, about 555; tail vertebrae, 190; 

 hind foot, 70 (mounted specimen). Skull: occipito-nasal length, 

 77; Hensel, 66; mastoid breadth, 28; interorbital constriction, 14; 

 median length of nasals, 19; palatal length, 37; postpalatal length, 

 28; length of upper tooth row, internal border, 32 ; length of mandible, 

 incisive border to angle, 54; height at condyle, 12; at coronoid pro- 

 cess, 23 ; lower tooth row, outer border, 28. 



538. paradoxus (Solendon), Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Scien. St. 



Petersb., n, 1833, p. 459, pis. i, 2. 

 AGOUTA. 



Type locality. Island of Haiti. 



Geogr. Distr. Island of Haiti. 



Genl. Char. Nose long, naked; nostrils with crescentic apertures, 

 inferior surface traversed by a medium longitudinal groove as far 

 as incisors; ears rounded, broad as high; tail shorter than head and 

 body, scaly, with minute hairs between scales ; claws strong. Mammas 

 two, inguinal. 



Color. Top of nose, forehead, top of head, back of neck and 

 upper part of back brownish black; rest of back, blackish brown; 

 side of head and neck pale yellowish brown mixed with gray and fer- 

 rugineous; abdomen and feet pale yellowish brown; tail scaly, gray 

 with the tip whitish. 



Measurements. Total length, 520.7; tail vertebras, 228.6; hind 

 foot, 60.9; ear, 38.1. 



