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Type Locality. — Cave on the property of Don Gervacio Torano, near Utuado, 

 Puerto Rico. Range. — Known only from remains found in caves. 



Acratocnus coines Miller f * 



1929. Acratocnus (?) comes Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 81, No. 9, 

 p. 26, Mar. 30, 1929. 



Type Locality. — Large cave near St. Michel, Haiti. Range. — Known only 

 from remains found in caves and Indian deposits (see Miller, op. cit., pp. 25-26; 

 and vol. 82, No. 5, p. 11, Dec. 11, 1929) . 



Genus PAROCNUS Miller 

 1929. Parocnus Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 81, No. 9, p. 28, Mar. 

 30, 1929. (Type, Parocnus serus Miller.) 



Parocnus serus Millerf* 



1929. Parocnus serus Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 81, No. 9, p. 29, 

 Mar. 30, 1929. 



Type Locality. — Large cave near St. Michel, Haiti. Range. — Known only 

 from remains found in caves. 



Superfamily MYRMECOPHAGOIDEA 

 Family Myrmecophagidae 



Genus MYRMECOPHAGA Linnaeus 



1758. Myrmecophaga Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 35. (Type, 

 by subsequent selection, Fleming, The philosophy of zoology . . . , vol. 2, 

 p. 194, May or June, 1822, Myrmecophaga jubata Linnaeus = Myrmecophaga 

 tridactyla Linnaeus.) 



1900. Falcifer Rehn, Amer. Nat., vol. 34, p. 576, July 1900. (Type, Myrme- 

 cophaga jubata Linnaeus = Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus.) 



Myrmecophaga tridactyla centralis Lyonf * 



1884, Myrmecophaga jubata True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29) , p. 588, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1906. Myrmecophaga centralis Lyon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 570, 



Nov. 14, 1906. 

 1920. Myrmecophaga tridactyla centralis Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 



vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 64-65, Apr. 26, 1920. 

 Type Locality. — Pacuare, Limon, Costa Rica. Range. — Costa Rica (Goodwin, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 356, Dec. 31, 1946) and Panama (Gold- 

 man, loc. cit.) 



Genus TAMANDUA M Gray 

 1775. Tamandua Frisch, Das Natur-System der vierfiissigen Thiere . . . , 

 p. 5. (Type, not designated. Included species: Tamandua guacu Frisch, 



51 Revised by J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, pp. 385-398, Oct. 29, 1904. 

 The generic name Tamandua is not available either from Rafinesque, Analyse de la nature 

 . . . , p. 57, 1815 (Tamandua not differentiated from Myrmecophaga, and no included 

 species), or from Gray, London Med. Repos., vol. 15, No. 88, p. 305, Apr. 1, 1821 (a vernacular 

 name). A statistical analysis of taxonomic differences within the genus Tamandua has been 

 published by Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. Ill, ser. A (Gen. and Exper.), pts. 3-4, 

 pp. 279-302, Feb. 17, 1942. 



