REITHRODONTOMYS. 



Fig. 3V ReiTriRODONTOMvS LECONTEI. 



No. <}!(9 Field Columbian Museum Coll. Twice nat. f-\ze. 



Lower tooth row. I'fper tooth roh 



Enlarged 7 times. Enlarged 7 times. 



Ty/>e locality. Georgia. 



Geog. Dislr. Coast district of South Carolina and Georgia, 

 southward into Florida. 



Gcnl. Char. Tail k'SS than head and body. 



Color. Above fuscous brown, darker on median line; more ful- 

 vous on sides, with indistinct lateral line; under parts dingy gray, 

 tinged with fulvous ; feet whitish; ears dusky; tail dusky above, 

 grayish wliite below. 



.\fiauirements. Total length, 120: tail vertebra, 56; hind foot, 

 15.5; ear, 9.5. 



n.^impi^er. [Ri-illiro,lo>itom\s), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1898, 

 p. 167. 



Type locality. White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. 



Geogr. Distr. West Virginia. 



Genl. Char. Smaller tlian R. lecontci; tail shorter; ear smaller; 

 molar teeth larger. 



Color. Above dark russet brown, darkest on back and rump; 

 sides ochraceous buff; beneath grayish white tinged with fawn; feet 

 grayish white; tail dusky above, grayish white beneath; under fur 

 plumbeous except on chin and under side of head. 



.Measurements. Total length, 112; tail vertebrae, 51; hind foot, 

 15; ear, 9. 



