SCALOPS. 



Fig. 78. ScALOPS aquaticus. 



No. 8525 Field Columbian Museum Coll. 

 Skull enlarged 'A nat. size. Tooth rows enlarged 4 times. 



Fore feet yevy large, broader than long (exclusive of claws); toes 

 webbed; palms naked. Tail short, slender, scantily covered with 

 hair. Fur fine, velvety. Coronoid process of mandible heavy, with 

 a tubercle on posterior margin. 



Color. Uniform lead color tinged with brown, in some lights 

 appearing dark, in others silvery gray. Feet and tail white. 



Measurements. Total length, 100-150; tail, 20-28; hind foot, 20. 



a.—jnnchrinus. {Talpa), Rafin., Atlantic Journ., 1832, p. 61. 



serieeti, Rafin., Atl. Journ., 1832, p. 61. 



argentatus, Aud. & Bach., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1842, 

 p. 292. 



Ty/e locality. Near Lexington, Kentucky. 



Geogr. Distr. Wisconsin and Minnesota, to Tennessee and 

 Missouri; west to eastern Kansas, Nebraska and southwestern South 

 Dakota. 



Genl. Char. Largest of the genus. Nose elongate, depressed, 

 naked and tuberculate; tail, one-si.\th of whole length, white, squared, 

 naked; feet white. Coronoid process of mandible large, triangular, 

 posterior margin straight. 



Color. Brown with grayish shades. 



Measurements. Total length, 154.9; tail vertebra;, 33.8. 



