n. LUTEA. 103 



Lontra brasilieusis, Gni,,, List £.M.n.70: P Z S ISfin n 19^^ 

 Lontre d Ani.5rique, Cuv. Regm Anim. i. p. Ifif, t. 1. f 3 

 Hah. Brazil {B.M.). 



3. Lontra? insularis. (The Trinidad Otter.) 



oJf^^ chestnut-brown, sides paler; sides of head and belly lips 

 chm, throat, and chest yellowish white; under-fur short, very soft 

 hairs short and very smooth. ' ^ ' 



Lutra insularis, i^. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. xxvii. p. 34.5 

 Lontra .r* insulans. Gray, P. Z. S. 18G.5, p. 125. 

 Hab. Trinidad. 



*** 3Iuzzle bald on the upper edge and between the nostrils, forming a cross 

 band tcith a straight upper and loicer edge '' 



X Foot oblong; toes short, wehbed to the dares, sharply dmced ; pads of 

 toes andpahn kirge, dose together. 



11. LUTRA. 



The muzzle bald, oblong-transverse, with a straight upper and 



ha^ £; t" "PP*^' frr^ ^^^ ^^°^^-^« b^l^ = the earsTblo g, 

 t^\^. T ?^' r^^'^' '^^^^^'^'^ ^ith hair above, and bald 



I^neath; toes and palm-pads weU developed; claws sti;ng! acute 

 Tail conical, covered with hair. Skull elongate ; orbit defined be-' 



trhl^irata;tiS:r '^'-''' ^'-^ -^ ^^^°- ^^^- 



a. Foreheajl and nose of skull fat ; the inner lobe of the flesh-tooth larae 



of the tooth Fhe hinder dentiferous portion of the ma.villari, bone 

 bearing the tubereular grinder, produced to the Mnder edge of the orbit. 



X Europe. 



1. Lutra vulgaris. (Otter.) B.]\X, 



The upper edge of the bald muzzle rather produced and ano-ular 

 nearly as high as broad in the middle, brown, beneath ashy -"ears' 

 chin, and throat reddish ashy ; edge of ears ashy. ^ ' ' 



Lutra vulgaris, ^,-.r/. .!/«„»«. p. 4,^8 ; Mhson, Ilhnn. Fia t •''O • Bell 

 Bnt Quad. p. 129, f. 4 ; Blainv. Osteogr. .Mustek, t. 8 (skuU)T 5 

 (skeleton), t. 13 (teeth); lionap. Icon. t. ; Gray, P.Z.Tim^, 



Mustela lutra, Linn. S. N. i. p. (iG; Petz F p 18 

 Viven-a lutra, Linn. F. S. p. 12; Pallas, Zoonr. i.'p 76 

 La Loiitre, i?^/ //. X. yn. p. 134, t. 2, xiii.'p. .32.5, t. 4.5. 

 (Hter, Penn. B. Z. 1. p. 02, t. 8. f. It). 



