SOLENODON. 567 
113. Solenodon. 
Sea. puto’, pr Sres My se 
Dees a Pao, BS = 40. 
Solenodon Brandt, Mém. Acad. Imp. Scien., St. Petersb., 6th Ser 
11, 1833, p. 459. Type Solenodon paradoxus Brandt. 
Characters same as those of the Family. 
REY TO) din or MELE. 
A. Size large; nose long, extending beyond mouth. 
a. Forehead, cheeks, throat, and sides of neck PAGE 
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b. Forehead, sides of head, and neck yellowish 
brown, mixed with gray and ferrugineous...S. paradoxus 568 
Fic. LXXXIV. SOLENODON CUBANUS. 
No. 134 Field Columbian Mus, Coll. 
537. cubanus (Solenodon), Peters, Abh. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 
Roos. 4; pl. IIT. 
ALMIQUI. 
Type locality. Island of Cuba. 
Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 
Genl. Char. Nose long, extending beyond the mouth; tail long, 
scaly, naked. 
Color. Forehead and stripe extending behind and beyond each 
ear, cheeks, throat and sides of neck yellowish white; top of head, 
upper parts and sides of body, outer side of arms and thighs jet black 
with numerous long white hairs scattered irregularly on sides and 
under parts, and extending beyond the others; under parts black 
with orange buff patches on lower part of chest and on the abdomen; 
inner side and top of arms from elbows, and legs from ankles sparsely 
