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sumably it lived up till the earlier post-Columbian times. 

 Hitherto no representative of the genus is known from Jamaica 

 or other West Indian Islands except Cuba and Hispaniola. 

 That so primitive and interesting a type should have wholly 

 died out within Recent times is to be regretted. 



NESOPHONTES MICRUS G. M. Allen 



? Nesophontes micrus G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, p. 5, pi., fig. 14, 

 Jan. 1917 ("Cavern in the Sierra of Hato-Nuevo, Province of Matanzas, Cuba"). 



FIGS.: Allen, G. M., 1917, pi., fig. 14 (jaw); 1918, pi., figs. 7-10; Anthony, H. E., 1919, 

 pi. 37, figs. 8, 9, 11, 12 (crania). 



NESOPHONTES LONGIROSTRIS Anthony 



Nesophontes longirostris Anthony, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 41, p. 633, 1919 



("Cave near the beach at Daiquiri, Cuba"). 

 FIGS.: Anthony, 1919, pi. 37, figs. 10, 13 (cranium). 



These two Cuban Nesophontes are at first glance very similar, 

 though N. longirostris has a slightly longer rostrum, and the 

 upper premolars are spaced instead of being in contact. They 

 are both known from skeletal remains only, the former from 

 both western and eastern Cuba, the latter from the type locality 

 in the eastern part of the island. 



These closely similar species differ remarkably from N. 

 edithae of Puerto Rico in their very much smaller size. Other- 

 wise they are much alike, although a number of minor charac- 

 ters separating them have been pointed out by Anthony (op. cit. 9 

 p. 633), such as the greater size of the first as compared with 

 the second upper premolar, whereas in N. edithae these are 

 equal; again, in the lower jaw, the second premolar is only 

 about half as large as the two others instead of equaling them. 

 Length of palate from postpalatal notch to alveolus of first 

 incisor, about 14.1-15.3 mm. in N. micrus; 14.7 in N. longi- 

 rostris, contrasted with 20.5 in N. edithae. Cranial length of 

 N. micrus, 28 mm. 



Nothing is known of N. longirostris except that it occurred 

 in eastern Cuba up to relatively recent times. Since this end 

 of the island still harbors various species that are absent from 

 the western end, it is likely that this was a local species, differ- 

 ing only slightly from N. micrus, the remains of which are now 

 known from recent cave deposits on the Isle of Pines as well as 

 from both eastern and western Cuba itself. No doubt, as 



