568 SOLENODON. 
covered with short black hairs; nails white, very long on the fingers; 
fingers and toes blackish brown, nearly naked; tail naked; black; 
ears naked, black; under lip and end of nose naked. 
Measurements. Total length, about 555; tail vertebre, 190; 
hind foot, 70 (mounted specimen). Skull: occipito-nasal length, 
77; Hensel, 66; mastoid breadth, 28; interorbital constriction, 14; 
median length of nasals, 19; palatal length, 37; postpalatal length, 
28; length of upper tooth row, internal border, 32; length of mandible, 
incisive border to angle, 54; height at condyle, 12; at coronoid pro- 
cess, 23; lower tooth row, outer border, 28. 
538. paradoxus (Solendon), Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Scien. St. 
Petersb:; 11, 05335 p. 450; pls. a, 2. 
AGOUTA. 
Type locality. Island of Haiti. 
Geogr. Distr. Island of Haiti. 
Genl. Char. Nose long, naked; nostrils with crescentic apertures, 
inferior surface traversed by a medium longitudinal groove as far 
as incisors; ears rounded, broad as high; tail shorter than head and 
body, scaly, with minute hairs between scales; claws strong. Mammez 
two, inguinal. 
Color. Top of nose, forehead, top of head, back of neck and 
upper part of back brownish black; rest of back, blackish brown; 
side of head and neck pale yellowish brown mixed with gray and fer- 
rugineous; abdomen and feet pale yellowish brown; tail scaly, gray 
with the tip whitish. 
Measurements. Total length, 520.7; tail vertebre, 228.6; hind 
foot, 60.9; ear, 38.1. 
