NOKTH AMEEICAN LAND MAMMALS. 7 



Genus CHIRONECTES Illiger. 



1811. Ohironectes Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, p. 76. 

 Type, Lutra minima Zimmermann, 



*Chironectes minimus (Zimmermann). 



1780. Latra [sic] minima Zimmermann, Geogr. Gesch., vol. 2, 



p. 317. 

 1885. Ohironectes variegatus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 7 (1884), p. 587. 1885. 

 1887. Ohironectes minimus Lydekker, Catal. Foss. Mamm. 



Brit. Mus., pt. 5, p. 289. 

 Type Locality. — Guiana. (Ranges north into Central America.) 



Superorder MONODELPHIA. 



Order INSECTIVORA. 



Family SOLENODONTID^. 



Genus SOLENODON Brandt. 



1833. Solenodon Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersbourg, 

 ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 459. Type, Solenodon paradoxus Brandt. 



*Solenodon paradoxus Brandt. 



1833. [Solenodon] paradoxus Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci., 



St. Petersbourg, ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 459. 

 1885. Solenodon paradoxus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, 



(1884), p. 607. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — ^Hayti. 



*Solenodon cubanus Peters. 



1861. Solenodon cubanus Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. 



Wissensch. Berlin, p. 169. 

 1885. Solenodon cuhanus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 607. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Mountains near Bayamon, Cuba. 



Family TALPID^. 



Subfamily Scalopin^. 



Genus SCALOPUS Geoffroy.^ 



1804. Scalopus Geoffroy, Catal. Mamm. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., 

 Paris, p. 77. Type, Sorex aquaticus Linn^us. 

 *Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus (Linnaeus). 



1758. [Sorex] aquaticus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 53. 



1825. Scalops aquaticus F. Cuvier, Dents des Mamm., p. 251. 



1885. Scalops aquaticus aquaticus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol 7, 1884, p. 606. 1885. 



Type Locality. — ^Eastern United States. 



1 Revised by True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 19, pp. 19-47, December 21, 1896. 



