CAPROMYS, 391 
lowish brown; under parts mixed gray and yellowish brown; limbs, 
hands, and feet similar to back, but with less chestnut red; tail 
covered with scattering reddish brown hairs. 
Another style is yellowish brown and black above, and pale 
yellow and black on sides. Nose and sides of head with a large 
amount of white; under parts yellowish white from chin to tail, with 
the sides of the belly pale brown; tail yellowish; hands whitish; arms 
mixed black and yellowish white; legs and feet black to toes, which 
are whitish; ears blackish, edged with whitish hairs. The two styles 
are strikingly different. 
Measurements. Total length, 777; tail, 220; hind foot, 83 
(skin). Skull: total length, 96; greatest zygomatic width, 48; length 
of Hensel, 78; mastoid breadth, 34; palatal length, 22; upper tooth 
row, 20; height of lower jaw at condyle, 30. 
408. melanurus (Capromys), Poey, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. 
Wiss. Berl., 1864, p. 384. Dobson, Proc. Zodl. Soc., 1884, 
Pp. 233, pls. XvIII—XXI. 
BLACK-TAILED HoutTIa. 
Type locality. Manzanillo, Cuba. 
Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 
Genl. Char. Ears short, rounded, naked; eyes small; nostrils 
obliquely placed in end of muzzle; tail scaly, but clothed with long 
hairs; thumb rudimentary with small blunt claws; other digits with 
convex, acute claws; foot twice the size of the hand. 
Color. General hue yellowish brown, darkest on head and 
palest beneath the body, mixed with long projecting black hairs; 
the hair on head much shorter than on the body; tail blackish 
brown. 
Measurements. Total length, 595; tail, 266; ear, 25. Skull: 
occipito-nasal length, 75; edge of foramen magnum to alveoli of 
incisors, 57; length of nasals, 24; of frontal, 25; of parietal, 26; of 
upper molar series, 15.5. 
409. prehensilis (Capromys), Poeppig, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. 
Philks\ ts 18240). 00. 
PREHENSILE-TAILED HUutrTIA. 
Type locality. Southern Cuba. 
Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 
Genl. Char. Tail long, rather thickly covered with hair; pelage 
rather smooth; size moderate. 
Color. Nose pale whitish brown; top and sides of head dark 
reddish brown mixed with white; upper parts dark reddish brown, 
being a mixture of dark brown, reddish brown, yellowish, and black, 
