106 • MUSTELID^. 



Lutra macrodus, Gray, P. Z, 8. 1865, p. 128. 



Hob. Brazil {Parzvdaki). Male and female. 



This Otter is about the size of Lontra brasUiensis ; but it is at 

 once distinguished from that species by the large size of the naked 

 muzzle and the harshness of the fur. It is very like L. vulgaris ; 

 but the inner lobe of the flesh-tooth appears considerably larger ; 

 and M. Parzudaki assured me that he had received the pair direct 

 from Brazil, from a collector who shot them. 



12. NUTRIA. 



like Lutra externally, with the bald muffle transverse, narrowed, 

 and arched below. Skull shoi-t, broad. Nose broad. Forehead flat ; 

 the orbit defined behind by a well-marked conical tubercle above arid 

 below. The flesh-tooth with a very large internal lobe, extending 

 the whole length of the tooth. Hinder portion of the palate short. 

 Nutria, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 128. 



This genus is at once known from the Otter with the large internal 

 lobes to the flesh-tooth, by the shortness and breadth of the skull 

 and the shortness of the hinder contracted portion of the palate. 



Nutria felina. B.M. 



Fur dark brown, with scattered, flat, whitish-tipped hairs. Lips, 

 sides, and beneath pale brown. The web of toes scattered with hairs 

 above. 



Lutra felina, Molina, Hist. Nat. Chili, plate 2 (skull). 

 Lutra chilensis, Bean. P. Z. Cvmm. Sci. ii. 1832 (!) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 

 ^. Jlf. p. 101(1). B.M. 



Lutra caUfomica, Gray, Mag. N. H. i. p. 580, 1837 (!) ; List Mamm. 

 B. M. p. 71 (!) ; Baird, Mamm. N. A. v. 187 (?). B.M., type. 



Lutra platensis, Waterh. Zool. Beag. t. 40. f. 4 (skull) ; D'Orh. Voy. 

 A. M&id. t. 12. f, 23 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. ; Verreaux 

 (skull), B. M. 

 Nutria felina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 128. 

 Chinchimen, MoUna, p. 261. 



Hob, In the sea. Chili (^Bennett) ; Peru, island of Chiloe (Tschridi) ; 

 California {P. P. King) ; Kamschatka ( Verreaux), 



Mr. Tomes observes, " The Otter collected in Guatemala by 

 Mr. Salvin agrees with the description and figure of L. chilensis 

 (Waterh.), especially in the inner lobe of the flesh-tooth having the 

 same angular form as in that species. InL.platends the inner lobe 

 of the flesh-tooth approaches more or less to a semicircular form. 

 Dr. Baird figures the flesh-tooth of L. canadensis as in L. platensis " 

 (P. Z. S. 1861, p. 280). 



Consult : — 



(1) Lutra montana, Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, p. 120. L. supra 

 obscura, fusco-rufa, fuseo irrorata, subtus nigricans. — Mab. Peru. — 

 Fresh water, 9000 feet above the sea. Length of body 5-6 inches, 

 tail 10 inches. 



