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"The legs, snout, and eyelids are naked and with the bare skin of the rump are 

 pinkish white. The ears are short, thin, rounded, and are bluish gray with light 

 edges. The heavy, rat-like tail is dark brown and naked. The claws are horn color. 

 The front feet and claws are large, heavy, and mole-like and well adapted to digging 

 and tearing asunder rotten \vood, etc. They are much smaller in proportion than 

 in the Cuban species, however. The snout is also more flexible than in S. cubanus, 

 from which it also differs in the smaller extent of the naked skin of the rump, the 

 color, size, and other characters." 



I am indebted to Mr. Herbert Lang for the subjoined external measurements. 

 Those of the male (see Table II) were made in the same detail as those given by Dr. 

 Peters of the type (female) of Solenodon cubanus (I. c. pp. 5, 6), for convenience of 

 comparison. Unfortunately the female specimen was dismembered before the 

 importance of securing detailed measurements for comparison with those of the 

 type of S. cubanus was recognized. 



I. EXTERNAL MEASUREMENTS OF Solenodon paradoxus. 



mm. mm. mm. 



No. 28270 No. 28271 Type 1 



Total length in straight line . . . ..... 535 510 520 



" " along curvature of body . . . . . 586 555 



Length of tail ............. 241 220 .230 



" from calcaneum to tip of middle claw ... 71 69 



" " olecranon to " " " .<*... 104 104 

 " of the muzzle in front of the incisors ... 39 40 



The above measurements show that in these two specimens the male 

 considerably exceeds the female in size. The female is somewhat older 

 than the male, having the teeth rather more worn, but both are what may 

 be termed 'old adults/ 



Dobson states that an adult male Solenodon cubanus in the Paris Muse- 

 um, and another male in the Hunterian Museum are both somewhat smaller 

 than the type of the species, a female, as described by Peters, "whence," 

 he says, "we may, perhaps, infer that the male is somewhat smaller than 

 the female." Peters's specimen, as shown by his figures of the skull, was a 

 middle-aged animal, with the teeth wholly unworn; compared with a female 

 skull in the U. S. National Museum Collection (No. 37983), of apparently 

 about the same age, it is decidedly larger (see measurements of skulls in 

 Table II), and also larger than a second skull in the U. S. National Museum 

 Collection (No. fyf|), also a female (see Table II); from this we may, per- 

 haps, infer that Peters's specimen was an exceptionally large female, and 



From Brandt, I. c. 



