NO. 1101. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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Tail short, very thick, blunt, densely hairy and constricted at the base. 

 Toes not webbed. 



Color dusky brown, paler and grayer below. Hairs of the feet, tail, 

 and snout brown, changing with age to white. 



Average dimensions (10 adults from Magnetic City, ZSTorth Carolina) : 

 Length of head and body, 140.9 mm.; tail vertebne, 30 mm.; hind foot, 

 19 mm. 



Average dimension of skull (20 adults): Total length, 32.2 mm.; 

 mastoid breadth, 14.7 mm.; length of superior tooth row, 13.6 mm. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body fusiform. Legs enveloped in the integuments nearly to the 

 wrists and ankles. Head depressed and triangular, produced into a 

 conical snout. Snout extending about 9 mm. beyond the incisor teeth; 



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SNODT OF I'ARASCALOPS BREWERI. 

 Fig. 19, Upprr surfacf. Fig. 20, Lower surf.ii-e. Fig. 21, Side i 

 C 1 ^ times natural size. ) 



naked above, furnished on the sides with warts, of which there are 

 three or four on each side of the median line. Mystacial bristles promi- 

 nent, the extremities of the longest extending to a point between the 

 eyes and auricular orifice. Xostrils terminal, subcrescentic, situated on 

 the sides of a fleshy, granular pad. 

 L^l^per lip thin and ridge-like, as in 

 ticalopH aquaiicus ; emarginate in 

 front and joined to a narrow, trian- 

 gular, naked area, which runs the 

 length of the snout inferiorly. The 

 median line of the lower jaw also 

 naked. 



Front feet very broad, depressed ; 

 their length (without the claws) 

 about equal to their breadtli. 

 Upper surface sparsely covered 

 with rather long hairs, which form a prominent fringe posteriorly; the 

 last joint of the digits naked. Inferior surface naked throughout and 

 granular. Toes very short, subequal, not webbed. Second, third, and 





23. 



FORE FOOT OF PARASCALOPS BREWERI. 



Fig. 2i?, Upper surface. Fig. 23, Lower surface. 



( 1 ^ times natural size.) 



