OcTOBEH 7, iyi4 Vol. V, pp. 69-71 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



A NEW AGOUTI FROM GUADELOUPE ISLAND, WEST 



INDIES. 



BY GLOVER M. ALLEX. 



The iNIiiseum of Comparative Zoology has lately received a num- 

 ber of interesting mammals, collected during the past summer on 

 Guadeloupe Island, Lesser Antilles, by Mr. G. K. Noble. Although 

 engaged also in collecting in several other departments of natural 

 history, he made especial efforts to procure specimens of the agouti, 

 which, though well known to the earlier writers, Du Tertre and 

 Labat, has become now nearly extinct. At length, with the aid 

 of native hunters, two excellent examples were secured. These 

 differ so strikingly from their representatives on the neighboring 

 islands that I huxe no hesitation in regarding them as distinct. 

 The Guadeloupe agouti may be known as 



Dasyprocta noblei sp. nov. 



Type, skin and skull, no. 15,936, M. C. Z., adult female, from Goyave, 

 Guadeloupe Island, West Indies, collected August 22, 1914, by G. K. 

 Noble. 



General Charncler.s. — Differs from D. nntilleyiais of Santa Lucia and D. 

 albida of St. Vincent, its nearest relatives to the south, in having the top 



