42 CTENOMYS SK'ISTA /APUR. 



84141>. Skin and skull. Adult male. Kio Chicode Santsi Cruz, near 

 the Cordilleras. Patagonia. Fel)i-uary 20, 1897. Colleetod by O. A. 

 Peterson. Original number 485. Catalogued March 15, 1898. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect. 



Type designated as No. 84194, an error for 84149. No. 84194 is a specimen of 

 C. sericena. The measurements of No. 84149 agree with those given by Dr. J. 

 A. Allen as belonging to the type, and tlie specimen itself bears Dr. Allen's tvpe 

 label. 



Ctenomys sericeus Allen. 



P.ull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIX, p. 187, :\[ay 9, 190.S. 



84189. Skin and .skull. Adult male, upper Rio Chico de Santa Cruz, 

 Cordilleras, Patagonia. February 5, 1897. Collected by O. A. 

 Peterson. Original number 831. Catalogued March Id, ls98. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull nearly perfect; last right upper molar 

 lost; right external auditory meatus and posterior portion of left bulla slightly 

 injured. 



Type designated as No. 84191, which is an error for No. 84189. The measure- 

 ments of the skin and skull ascribed by Dr. Allen to the type are those of 

 84189, and do not agree with those of 84191, a smaller individual. To indicate 

 further that No. 84189 is the type. Dr. Allen has tied to tlie specimen the 

 standard red tyi)e label of the Ainerican yinseum of Xntural Ilisturi/, with the 

 italicized words cro.'^sed out and the words "IT. S. Nat." added, as well as the 

 name Ctenomys oericeus Allen. 



Family ZAPODID^. 



Genus SICISTA. 



Sminthus flavus True. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. .Mus., XVII, No. 1004, p. 341, November 15, 1894. 

 =Sicista flava (True). See Allen, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIV, p. 185, Decem- 

 ber 12, 1901. 



2 0.14.0^ SkinandskuU. Adult male. Central Kashmir, at 11,000 feet. 

 July 21, 1891. Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Catalogued May 

 9, 1892. 



Skin well preserved, but poorly made up; n(j wires in legs or tail; skull per- 

 fect, except for lo.ss of angular process of left half of mandible and some slight 

 damage to the right bulla. 



Genus ZAPUS. 



Zapus hudsonius alascensis Mcrriam. Biological Survey coll. 



I'roc. r,iol. Soc. Wash., XI, p. 223, July 15, 1897. 



73584. SkinandskuU. Adult male. Yakutat, Alaska. July 5,1895. 

 Collected by C. P. Streator. Original nunibei- 4060. 

 Well-ma<k^ skin in good condition; skull i)erfect. 



