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sion from alcobolic specimens: Total length, 131.3 mm.; liead, 4:9.2mm.; 

 tail vertebriie, 31.2 mm.; hind foot (without claw), 19.8 mm. Average 

 dimensions of skull (13 from Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas): Total 

 length, 36.8 mm. ; greatest breadth, 19.0 mm. ; ])alate length from inside 

 of incisors, 1C,5 mm. 



TypelocaJity. — ISTear Lexington, Kentucky. 



Distribution. — Mississippi Valley, from Tennessee and Missouri north- 

 ward to Wisconsin and Minnesota, and westward to eastern Kansas 

 and I^ebraska and southwestern South Dakota. Manitoba (! ). 



SCALOPS AQUATICUS AUSTRALIS, Chapman. 



FLORIDA MOLE. 



Scalops aquaficus ausiralis, Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., V, 1893, 339. 

 ? »Scaio^)s|jarcMs, Khoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. 8ci. Phila., 1894, p. 157. 

 ? Talpa cupreafa, Rafinesque, Precis des decouvertes et trav. Somiologiques, 

 1814, p. 14. 



Diagnosis. — Size much smaller than in the tyi)ical form (average 

 total length 142 mm.) and hind foot proportionately long; skull small; 

 teeth delicate; coronoid process slender, uncinate, without a secondary 

 process on the posterior margin; color brownish silvery gray, as in the 

 tj'pical form, but often with rusty spots on the sides of the nose and 

 about the chin and wrists. 



Average dimensions. — (9 fresh specimens, males, from Oak Lodge, 

 opp. Micco, Florida; Bangs' Coll.): Total length, 137 mm.; tail, 20.6 

 mm.; hind foot, 17.1 mm. Alcoholic specimens: Total length, 123mm.; 

 head, 40.1 mm. ; tail vertebr;c, 23.4 mm. ; hind foot (without claw), 

 15.1 mm. 



A rerage dimensions of adult skulls (9 males from Oak Lodge, Flor- 

 ida): Total length, 30.8 mm.; greatest breadth, 1G.2 mm.; length of 

 palate from inside of incisors, 13.1 mm. 



Type-locality. — Gainesville, Florida. 



Distrihution. — Eastern Florida, south to Lake Worth and Orange 

 Hammock (De Soto County). Western Florida, Tarpon Springs. 



SCALOPS AQUATICUS TEXANUS (J. A. Allen). 



TEXAS MOLE. 



Scalojis argentatus texanns, J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ill, 1891, 

 p. 221. 



Scalops texanus, J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., V, 1893, p. 200. 



Diagnosis. — Size small, as in subspecies australis (average total 

 length of males 141 mm.). General coloration as in the typical form, 

 but strongly suffused on the forehead, chin, breast, and wrists with 

 rusty orange brown. 



Skull small, massive. Frontal sinuses enlarged. Mandible deep; 

 coronoid process broad, with a straight posterior margin. Molar teeth 

 large. First upper premolar small. 



