CAPROMYS. 391 



lowish brown; under parts mixed gray and yellowish brown; limbs, 

 hands, and feet similar to back, but with less chestnut red; tail 

 covered with scattering reddish brown hairs. 



Another style is yellowish brown and black above, and pale 

 yellow and black on sides. Nose and sides of head with a large 

 amount of white; under parts yellowish white from chin to tail, with 

 the sides of the belly pale brown ; tail yellowish ; hands whitish ; arms 

 mixed black and yellowish white; legs and feet black to toes, which 

 are whitish; ears blackish, edged with whitish hairs. The two styles 

 are strikingly different. 



Measurements. Total length, 777; tail, 220; hind foot, 83 

 (skin). Skull: total length, 96; greatest zygomatic width, 48; length 

 of Hensel, 78; mastoid breadth, 34; palatal length, 22; upper tooth 

 row, 20; height of lower jaw at condyle, 30. 



408. melanurus (Capromys}, Poey, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. 



Wiss. Berl., 1864, p. 384. Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1884, 

 p. 233, pis. xvm-xxi. 

 BLACK-TAILED HUTIA. 



Type locality. Manzanillo, Cuba. 



Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 



Genl. Char. Ears short, rounded, naked; eyes small; nostrils 

 obliquely placed in end of muzzle; tail scaly, but clothed with long 

 hairs; thumb rudimentary with small blunt claws; other digits with 

 convex, acute claws; foot twice the size of the hand. 



Color. General hue yellowish brown, darkest on head and 

 palest beneath the body, mixed with long projecting black hairs; 

 the hair on head much shorter than on the body ; tail blackish 

 brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 595; tail, 266; ear, 25. Skull: 

 occipito-nasal length, 75; edge of foramen magnum to alveoli of 

 incisors, 57; length of nasals, 24; of frontal, 25; of parietal, 26; of 

 upper molar series, 15.5. 



409. prehensilis (Capromys), Poeppig, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. 



Phil., i, 1824, p. ii. 

 PREHENSILE-TAILED HUTIA. 



Type locality. Southern Cuba. 



Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 



Genl. Char. Tail long, rather thickly covered with hair; pelage 

 rather smooth; size moderate. 



Color. Nose pale whitish brown; top and sides of head dark 

 reddish brown mixed with white; upper parts dark reddish brown, 

 being a mixture of dark brown, reddish brown, yellowish, and black, 



