TAMANDUA. 11 



Tamandiia tetradactyla Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. 



Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, p. 27, figs. 7, ix, x. Zool. 



Ser. 

 Three-toed Ante ate r. Tejon, Oso Colmenero in Costa Rica. 

 Type locality. "America Meridionali," Brazil? 

 Geogr. Distr. Mexico, through Central America to Peru and 



Paraguay, South America. 



a. * Taindiidiid fctraducfyla tcnidTosfris Allen. 



Tamandna tetradactyla temiirostris Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., 1904, p. 394. . 

 Slender Nose Anteater. 



Type locality. Passa Nueva, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Size large; tail long as head and body. 



Color. "Light areas white faintly tinged with yellowish, the 

 yellow tint a little stronger on the nuchal-interscapular space ; median 

 light dorsal line extending to hips; dark area purplish black sharply 

 defined against the white, and reaching the base of the tail above 

 and below." 



Measurements. Total length, 1185; tail, 600; hind foot, 95. 

 Skull: occipito-nasal length, 133; width of braincase, 42; length 

 of nasals, 55. 



h. * TdDia nd 11(1 tcfvadortuld clii riiiitriisi s Allen. 



Tamandua tetradactyla chiriqtiensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., 1904, p. 295. 

 Chiriqui Anteater. 



Type locality. Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama. 



Geogr. Distr. Range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Size large; tail as long as head and body. 



Color. Dark areas deep brownish black ; light areas dull brownish 

 buffy white; deeper on nuchal-interscapular region. The black ex- 

 tending for nearly four inches on the basal portion of the tail. Light 

 median dorsal- stripe terminates considerably in front of hips. 



Measurements. Total length, 1180; tail, 555; hind foot, 100; 

 ear, 50. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 132.5; width of braincase, 

 42; length of nasals, 55. 



22. Tamandua sellata (Cope). 



Myrmecophaga sellata Cope, Amer. Nat., xxiii, 1889, p. 183. 



♦The specific standing of these two named forms depends upon the results 

 of a comparison between them and specimens from Honduras, the type locality 

 of M. sellata Cope, for it may be that one, perhaps both, will prove to be synony- 

 mous with that species. 



