NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. l3 



Genus PARASCALOPS True.* 



1894. Parascalops True, Diagnoses of new North American 

 mammals, p. 2. April 26, 1894. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 17, p. 242. November 15, 1894.) Type, Scalops 

 hreweri Bachman. 



^Parascalops breweri (Bachman). (Hairy-tailed mole.) 



1842. Scalops hreweri Bachman, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 



4, p. 32. 

 1885. Scapanus Ireweri True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 

 (1884), p. 606. 1885. 



1895. Parascalops hreweri True, Science, n. s., vol. 1, p. 101. 

 January 25, 1895. 



Type Locality. — Eastern North America; type supposed by 

 Bachman to have been taken on the island of Marthas Vine- 

 yard, Massachusetts, a locality where the animal probably 

 does not occur. 



Range. — Southeastern Canada and northeastern United States 

 from southern New Brunswick, southern Quebec, and eastern 

 Ontario, south to northeastern Ohio and southern Pennsyl- 

 vania, and in the Appalachian Mountains to western North 

 Carolina. 



Genus SCALOPUS Geoffrey.^ 



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

 Paris, p. 77. Type, Sorex aquaticus Linn^us. 



*Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus (Linnoeus). 



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



1829. Sc[alops] aquaticus Fischer, Synops. Mamm.. p. 249. 



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

 vol. 7 (1884), p. 606. 1885. 



Type Locality. — Eastern United States. 



Range.— Eastern United States from eastern and southern 

 Massachusetts, southeastern New York, and southeastern 

 Pennsylvania, south through Virginia, and in the Appalachian 

 Mountains south through western North Carolina and eastern 

 Tennessee. 



* Revised by True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 19, pp. 67-77, Dec. 21, 189G; and Jackson, North Amer. 

 Fauna, No. 38, pp. 77-82, Sept. 30, 1915. 



» Revised by True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 19, pp. 19-47, Dec. 21, 1896; and Jackson, North Amer. 

 Fauna, No. 38, pp. 27-54, Sept. 30, 1915. 



