RODENTIA: DASYPROCTIDAE 637 



Type Locality. — Catemaco, southern Veracruz, Mexico. Range. — Coastal 

 plains and mountain slopes from vicinity of Jalapa, Veracruz, eastward and 

 southward through Tabasco, Chiapas and Peninsula of Yucatan to eastern Guate- 

 mala; and western Honduras (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 79, 

 p. 174, May 29, 1942) . Recorded also at Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Dal- 

 quest, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 23, p. 12, July 10, 1950). 



Subfamily dasyproctinae (agoutis) 

 Genus DASYPROCTA Illiger 

 1811. Dasyprocta Illiger, Prodromus systematis Mammalium et Avium . . . , 

 p. 93. (Type, Mus aguti Linnaeus.) 



Dasyprocta aguti (Linnaeus) * 



1766. [Mus] aguti Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 80. 



1829. D[asyprocta] aguti Fischer, Synopsis Mammalium, p. 379. 



Type Locality. — Brazil. Range. — Introduced on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 

 West Indies (Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 54, p. 508, Oct. 15, 1918) . 



Dasyprocta albida Gray* 



1842. Dasyprocta albida Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol. 10, p. 264, 



December 1842. 

 1884. Dasyprocta cristata True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , 



p. 600, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1911. Dasyprocta albida G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 54, p. 202, 



July 1911. 

 Type Locality. — St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. Range. — St. Vincent Island. 

 Recorded also from Grenada (USNM 267382). 



Dasyprocta antillensis Sclater* 



1875. Dasyprocta antillensis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1874, pt. 4, 



p. 666, April 1875. 

 1911. Dasyprocta antillensis G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 54, 



p. 203, July 1911. 

 Type Locality. — St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles. Range. — St. Lucia Island. Re- 

 corded also from Martinique (USNM 293781) . 



Dasyprocta noblei G. M. Allen* 



1914. Dasyprocta noblei G. M. Allen, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 5, 

 p. 69, Oct. 7, 1914. 



Type Locality. — Goyave, Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. Range. — Guadeloupe 

 Island. Recorded also from St. Kitts (USNM 38072), Dominica (USNM 

 38422), and Montserrat (USNM 114010). 



Dasyprocta mexicana Saussure* 



1860. Dasyprocta mexicana Saussure, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, ser. 2, vol. 12, 



p. 53. 

 1884. Dasyprocta mexicana True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 600, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 Type Locality. — "Hot zone of Mexico"; probably in State of Veracruz. 



