l6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES 



Plate i 



All figures natural size 



Fig. I. Plagiodontia hylccmn Miller. Adult male. No. 239891, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The largest specimen of the living animal collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Guarabo, Dominican Republic, Nov. 24, 1923. 

 Fig. la. Plagiodontia hylcsum Miller. Adult female. No. 239888, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Guarabo, Nov. 23, 1923. 

 Fig, 2. Plagiodontia (edinm Desmarest. Adult. No. 254376, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Anadel, Dominican Republic. 

 Figs. 3 and 3a. Brotomys voratiis Miller. Nos. 254683 and 254684, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Railroad cave, San Lorenzo Bay, Dominican Republic. 

 Fig. 4. Capromys pilorides Desmarest. Adult. No. 254449, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



San Gabriel cave, Samana Bay, Dominican Republic. (Observe spacing of 



ridges in alveoli as compared with that of the ridges in alveoli of Isolobodon, 



fig. 6.) 

 Fig. 5. Isolobodon levir (Miller). Adult. No. 254686, U. S. Nat. Mus. Near 



Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. 

 Fig. 6. Isolobodon portoricensis Allen. Adult. Railroad cave, San Lorenzo Bay, 



Dominican Republic. 



Plate 2 

 All figures natural size 



Fig. I. Acratocnus comes Miller. Phalangeal bone from cave near St. Michel, 



Haiti. No. 253210, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Fig. 2. Acratocnus comes Miller ? Phalangeal bone from kitchenmidden in Boca 



del Infierno cave, Samana Bay, Dominican Republic. No. 254680, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 

 Fig. 3. Qiiemisia gravis Miller. Parts of femur and ulna from kitchenmidden in 



Boca del Infierno cave, Samana Bay, Dominican Republic. No. 254681, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 

 Fig. 4. Monkey. Lower end of tibia from kitchenmidden on Naranjo Aba jo Key, 



Samana Bay, Dominican Republic. No. 254682, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Fig. 5. Cercopithecus pygerythrus. Lower end of tibia. Changamwe, British 



East Africa. No. 163327, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Fig. 6. Cebus capiicinus. Lower end of tibia. North Ecuador. No. 113418, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 



