NORTH AMEEICAN LAND MAMMALS. 7 



Genus CHIRONECTES Illiger. 



1811. Chironedes Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, p. 76. 

 Type, Lutra minima Zimmermann. 



*Chironectes minimus (Zimmermann). 



1780. Latra [sic] minima Zimmermann, Gcogr. Gesch., vol. 2, 



p. 317. 

 1885. Chironecfes variegatus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 7 (1884), p. 587. 1885. 

 1887. Chironectes minimus Lydekker, Catal. Foss. Mamm. 



Brit. Mus., pt. 5, p. 289. 

 Type Locality. — Guiana. (Ranges north into Central America.) 



Superorder MONODELPHIA. 



Order INSECTIVORA. 



Family SOLENODONTID^. 



Genus SOLENODON Brandt. 



1833. Solenodon Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp, Sci., St. Petersbourg, 

 ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 459, Type, Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, 



*Solenodon paradoxus Brandt. 



1833. [Solenodon] paradoxus Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci., 



St. Petersbourg, ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 459. 

 1885. Solenodon paradoxus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, 



(1884), p. 607. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Hayti. 



*Solenodon cubanus Peters. 



1861. Solenodon cubanus Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. 



Wissensch. Berlin, p. 169. 

 1885. Solenodon cubanus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 607. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Mountains near Bayamon, Cuba. 



Family TALPID^. 



Subfamily Scalopin^. 



Genus SCALOPUS Geoffrey.^ 



1804. Scalopus Geoffroy, Catal. Mamm. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., 

 Paris, p. 77. Type, Sorex aquaticus Linnaeus. 

 *Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus (Linnaeus). 



1758. [Sorex] aquaticus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol, 1, p. 53. 



1825. Scalops aquaticus F. Cuvier, Dents des Mamm., p. 251. 



1885. Scalops aquaticus aquaticus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol 7, 1884, p. 606, 1885. 



Type Locality, — Eastern United States, 



1 Revised by True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 19, pp. 19-47, December 21, 1896. 



