RODENTIA SACCOMYINAE PEROGNATHUS HISPIDUS. 



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In this thelobed antitragus is very distinct ; the soles naked. The hind legs, perhaps, have less 

 of the dorsal color on their exterior. The size appears considerably larger, hut the specimen 

 was probably somewhat over stuffed. 



List of specimens. 



PEROGNATHUS HISPIDUS, Baird. 



SP. Cu. Ears small, not projecting beyond the fur ; antitragus with a distinct lobe. Soles naked. Hair very stiff and 

 coarse. Tail as long as head (and body?). Above mixed cinnamon and black ; sides with a fulvous stripe ; beneath white. 

 Entire fore and hind legs white. 



This species is strongly marked even in the genus Perognaihus by the very thick, coarse, 

 stiff and bristly hair covering the whole of the body and limbs, and longer than usual. The 

 ears are small, and do not project beyond the fur ; the antitragus is distinctly lobed. The feet 

 are very stout and broad, the soles naked from the heel. The tail is broken in one specimen, 

 (STT,) in another it is as long as the head and body. It is covered with rather long stiff hairs 

 lying flat to the bone, and mostly concealing the whorls ; those on the upper surface rather longer. 



The upper parts are of a mixed cinnamon and black. The entire surface of the fore and 

 hind legs all round with the under parts white ; a fulvous band along the sides running out on 

 the hind legs. The belly hairs are white to their roots. 



Another specimen, (576,) probably of the same species, has been so discolored by long 

 immersion in alcohol, as to render its tints unappreciable. It agrees, however, in general 

 characters with No. 5 7 *7. 



This species is smaller than P. fasciatus, and differs in the longer and much stiffer hair, 

 smaller ears, the light colored thighs, and the darker color. It has not the pencilled tail of 

 P. penicittatus; conpared with P. monticola, it is larger, with stouter feet, and the outsides of 

 the arm and thighs are white, instead of being colored like the back. The belly hairs are 

 white to the roots, instead of being plumbeous at the base. 



The penis of the male of this species is armed with a spiculum of bone half an inch long, 

 perfectly straight and tapering to the end, where it is expanded, and the head is divided by a 

 deep furrow. 



