HLE59 
Marcu 28, 1917 Vou. VI, pp. 53-56 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
AN EXTINCT CUBAN CAPROMYS. 
BY GLOVER MORRILL ALLEN. 
In a previous paper (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoél., Jan. 1917, vol. 
61, pp. 1-12), I described a subfossil insectivore, a Geocapromys, 
and a small species of Boromys, on the basis of cranial fragments 
recovered from a piece of bone-breccia sent from Cuba to the 
Museum of Comparative Zoédlogy by Professor Carlos de la Torre. 
The bone-breccia was found in a limestone cavern in the Sierra 
de Hato Nuevo, Province of Matanzas. This locality has lately 
been revisited by Dr. Thomas Barbour, who collected a quantity 
of subfossil bones from the same cave. He found them in a layer 
a short distance beneath the surface of the floor deposit, and was 
fortunate in discovering several pockets where the bones were 
loose in the earth, and not solidified together by limy deposition. 
The greater part of the deposit had already been removed in the 
course of years by the local planters, who use the cave earth as 
a fertilizer. The original mass must have been considerable, the 
accumulation of a long period of time. The greater part of the 
bones recovered are those of Geocapromys and Capromys pre- 
