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abrupt contrast with it; the dark rufous of the head becomes somewhat 

 lighter anteriorly, but on the sides of the neck, shoulders, and breast passes 

 into deep rufous chestnut, very unlike the light yellow of these parts in cu- 

 banus. 



The pelage is much heavier longer and thicker and more woolly 

 in cubanus than in paradoxus, in which latter species the nose, facial region 

 and feet are also much more thinly clothed. 



The w T ell marked differences in the skull and teeth, noted below, have 

 long been known, and show that instead of the two forms being only " local 

 varieties," as suggested by Dobson, they are really not closely related, and 

 might well be regarded as referable to different subgenera. 



TABLE III. COMPARATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF SKULLS OF Solenodon para- 

 doxus AND S. cubanus. 



S. paradoxus. 



S. cubanus. 



1 S. paradoxus. Type, cT. Measurements from Peters, I. c., pp. 11, 12. 



2 S. paradoxus, old c?, No. 28270. Measurements from the specimen. 



3 S. paradoxus, old 9, No. 28271. Measurements from the specimen. 



4 S. cubanus, Q, No. 37983, U. S. Nat. Mus. Measurements from specimen. 



5 S. cubanus, 9, No. fg U. S. Nat. Mus. Measurements from specimen. 



6 S. cubanus, Type, 9. Measurements from Peters, I. c., pp. 11, 12. 



7 S. cubanus, 0\ Hunterian Museum. Measurements from Dobson, 'Monograph of the 

 Insectivora,' p. 90. 



