NO. 1101. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 65 



Museums aufgestellt worden, welches von Deppe angeblich aus Mexico 

 eiugesaudt worden wiire. Bas einzige Exemplar der Gattung' Sc((lo2)s, 

 welches sich aber aus der Deppe'schen Sammluug im Berliner Museum 

 (No. 712) befuudeu hat und hefludet und welches, da ich es als ' Sc. lati- 

 manus Bachmanu' bezeichuet vorfaiid, ohne Zweifel das Originalexem- 

 phir der Bachmann'schen Art ist, staniiut nicht aus Mexico, sondern ist, 

 wie aus dem Eiugaugsjournal der DepiDe'schen Sammlung hervorgeht, 

 aus Monterey in Californien eingesandt und im October 1834 in Sta. Clara 

 (Sonora?) gesammelt Avorden. Es gehort dieses Exemplar auch nicht 

 zu der eigentlichen Gattung Scalop.s, sondern zu Scapanus Baird niit 44 

 Ziihiien und stimmt nicht allein nach Baird's genauer Beschreibung, 

 sondern auch nach Vergleichung mit einem zweiten Exemplar, welches 

 wir Hrn. Dr. P. Jagor aus Californien verdanken, durchaus mit Sc. 

 Toivnseudi iiberein. Es muss daher der Sc. latimanus aus der Liste der 

 Siiugethiere gestrichen werden.''^ 



DESCRIPTION OF THE TYPE SPECIMEN OF SCAPANUS ANTHONYI, 



J. A. ALLEN. 



No. ^f 2?. Male. San Pedro Martir Mt., L. Cal. (altitude 7,000 ft., May 8, 1893). 

 Collection of American Museum of Natural History. 



This specimen is a well-prepared skin accompanied by a skull. The 

 fur is rather dark and fresh-lookiug, giving the impression that it is 

 the new summer pelage. 



The skull has but three premolars above and below. The first 

 premolar is apparently the one missing. Whether this difference 

 is merely an individual peculiarity can not, of course, be determined 

 until more specimens shall have been collected. The teeth are much 

 worn, and the contour of the skull indicates that it is mature or old. 



The dimensions of the skull are as follows : 



rum. 



Total length 30. 



Basilar length 24. 7 



Palatal length 13. 5 



Mastoid breadth 15. 7 



Zygomatic breadth 12. 8 



Facial breadth 8.8 



Breadth between I' and PM^ 4.6 



[• Translation.] 



'^6. Soalops latimanus Bachman = )Sc. Townseiidi Bachmau, Baird. 



"This species was based by Bachman on a specimen in the Berlin Museum which 

 had been forwarded by Deppe nominally from Mexico. The only specimen of the 

 genus Scalops, however, from Deppe's collection which has been and is in the Berlin 

 Museum, No. 712 (and which, as I found it marked as ' Sc. latimanus Bachmann,' is 

 doubtless the original specimen of Bachman's species), did not originate from Mex- 

 ico, but was, as appears from the entry journal of Deppe's collection, transmitted 

 from Monterey in California, and was collected in Santa Clara (Sonora?) in October, 

 1834. This specimen does not belong to the genus 5ca/o^7sproper, but to Scapantis Baird, 

 with 44 teeth, and agrees, not only according to Baird's exact descrijition, but also 

 according to a comparison with a second specimen from California, which we owe to 

 Dr. F. Jagor, entirely with Sc. Toioiseiidi. Hence the Sc. laiimatius nnist be stricken 

 out of the list of mammals." (Mouatsher. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 1863, p. 656.) 

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