l6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES 



Plate i 



All figures natural size 



Fig. I. Plagiodontia hylcvum 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 hylcEum Miller. Adult female. No. 239888, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Guarabo, Nov. 23, 1923. 

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



Anadel, Dominican Republic. 

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



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

 Fig. 4. Caprotnys 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 portoriccnsis 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. Quemisia 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. Cercopitheciis pygerythrus. Lower end of tibia. Changamwe, British 



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

 Fig. 6. Cebits capucinns. Lower end of tibia. North Ecuador. No. 11 3418, U. S. 



Nat. ]Mus. 



