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legs similar, but the ochraceous buff, lighter and duller and with 

 very little admixture of other color, except the grayish bases of hairs 

 showing through; entire under parts, including inner sides of legs, 

 creamy white, feet dirty whitish, oars brownish with a few inconspicu- 

 ous short hairs; tail light brownish above, but gradually lightening 

 to dirty whitish for a narrow area beneath. 



Pelage. — Pelage of three types of hairs : (1) soft, rather wavy normal 

 hair, grayish at base, with a conspicuous subapical ochraceous ring 

 and an inconspicuous dark brownish apex, these hairs often partak- 

 ing of the nature of underfur, and with very little of the ochraceous 

 coloring; (2) numerous flattened grooved spines, straw yellowish 

 basally and centrally, dark brownish apically and marginally; (3) 

 rather long slender bristles, generally blackish in color throughout, 

 present only along middle line of back. On the light under parts the 

 short hairs and spines are uniformly creamy white throughout. 

 Middle portion of tail with eleven scales to the centimeter, each 

 subtended by three brownish hairs, equaling a scale and a half in 

 length. Whiskers very long, 65 mm., reaching as far back as 

 shoulders. 



Skull and teeth. — The skull of Epimys spatulatus has the same 

 general shape as the skulls of other species of the cremoriventer group, 

 but it is distinctly larger, the brain case absolutely and relatively 

 longer, the rostrum larger and heavier, and the nasals relatively 

 wider at the extremity. The teeth are relatively smaller than they 

 are in other species. 



Measurements. — External measurements of the type taken by col- 

 lector: Head and body, 158 mm.; tail, 197; hind foot with claws, 31. 

 Cranial measurements of the type: Condylo-basal length, 34.3; 

 zygomatic breadth, 16.4; width of brain case above roots of zygo- 

 mata, 15.6; interorbital constriction, 5.7; length of nasals, 13.7; 

 width of nasals at extremity, 4.8; maxillary tooth row, alveoli, 6.2. 



Specimens examined. — One, the type. 



Remarks. — Epimys spatulatus differs from Epimys Jcina Bonhote 1 

 mainly in its larger size. 



i Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 11, p. 124, January, 1903. 



