TAMANDUA. 11 



Tamandua ietradactyla Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. 



Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, p. 27, figs. 7, ix, x. Zool. 



Ser. 

 Three-toed Anteater. Tejon, Oso Colmenero in Costa Rica. 

 Type locality. "America Meridionali," Brazil? 

 Geogr. Distr. Mexico, through Central America to Peru and 



Paraguay, South America. 



a. * Tamandua tetrad a ctyla tenuirostHs Allen. 



Tamandua ietradactyla tenuirostris Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., 1904, p. 394. 

 Slender Nose Anteater. 



Type locality. Passa Nueva, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Size large; tail long as head and body. 



Color. "Light areas white faintly tinged with yellowish, the 

 yellow tint a little stronger on the nuchal-interscapular spac6 ; median 

 light dorsal line extending to hips; dark area purplish black sharply 

 defined against the white, and reaching the base of the tail above 

 and below." 



Measurements. Total length, 1185; tail, 600; hind foot, 95. 

 Skull: occipito-nasal length, 133; width of braincase, 42; length 

 of nasals, 55. 



b. * Tamandua tetradactyla chiriquensis Allen, 



Tamandua tetradactyla chiriquensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., 1904, p. 295. 

 Chiriqui Anteater. 



Type locality. Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama. 



Geogr. Distr. Range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Size large; tail as long as head and body. 



Color. Dark areas deep brownish black ; light areas dull brownish 

 buffy white; deeper on nuchal-interscapular region. The black ex- 

 tending for nearly four inches on the basal portion of the tail. Light 

 median dorsal stripe terminates considerably in front of hips. 



Measurements. Total length, 1180; tail, 555; hind foot, 100; 

 ear, 50. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 132.5; width of braincase, 

 42; length of nasals, 55. 



22. Tamandua sellata (Cope). 



Myrmecophaga sellata Cope, Amer. Nat., xxiii, 1889, p. 183. 



♦The specific standing of these two named forms depends upon the results 

 of a comparison between them and specimens from Honduras, the type locality 

 of M. sellata Cope, for it may be that one, perhaps both, will prove to be synony- 

 mous with that species. 



