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KOETH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[No. r;8. 



Florida: Pensacola, 



Georgia: ColumbuH, 2; Crawfordsville, 1; Griffin, I; Youug Harrin, 12. 

 Louisiana: New Orleans, 2; St. Fraricinville, 1; St. Tammany Parish, 1.^ 

 Iflississippi: Bay St. Louie, 3; Biloxi, 2; Cedarbluff, 1; Kemper County, 1; 

 Washington, 1. 



North Carolina: Apex, l;'^ Bertie County, 1;^ Ja/;k8on, 2; Kin8tx)n, 3; Moran, 



Chowan County, 1; Ptaleigh, 23; WilkeHV^oro, 1. 

 South Carolina: AbVjeville, 1; * Beaufort County, 4; Calhoun Falls, 1 ; ^' Catawba, 



2;^ Charle.ston, 1; Frogmore, 4; GoorgetowTi, 1; Oakley, 2; Society Hill, 1. 



SCALOPUS AQUATICUS AUSTRALIS (Cliapman). 



F'lorida Mole. 



(PI. II, fjg. 3; PI. Ill, figs. 3, 3a; PI. YI, fig. 5.) 



Scaloj)8 aquati/MS australis Chapman, Bul. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, p. 339, 

 December 22, 1893. 



SmlojAJJi aqual'icus avMralis Elliot, Field Colurnb. Mus., publ. lOo, zool. Herie«, vol. 6, 

 p. 470, 1905. 



Type locality. — Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. 



Tifpe sxjecirrien. — No. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.; young adult, 



sex unknown, skin and skull; collected May 4, 1891, by F. M. Chap- 

 man. 



Geographic range. — Southeastern Georgia and the eastern portion 

 of peninsular Florida south to Lemon City. 



General cJuiracters. — Size small TsmaUer than hovjeUi); feet rela- 

 tively large; tail relatively short; skull short and broad (relatively 

 broader and higher than that of ho^jjelli); teeth small. 



Color. — Full vrlnter pelage: Back clove brown, mummy brown, or 

 dark fuscous, paler on vmsts, slightly tinged v/ith ocliraceous-buff on 

 nose; underparts similar to back but showing more dark neutral gray 

 at base of hairs. Worn vrlnter pelage: Variable; back clove brown or 

 mummy brown to vinaceous-buff, drab, or drab-gray with or without 

 pinkish ?juff or ochraceous-buff on nose; beneath much as above, 

 more grayish. 



Shull. — Small, not angular, le.ss constricted interorbitally than in 

 S. a. aq'aaticm, and not much depressed postorbitaUy; mastoids not 

 heavy; coronoid process and angle of mandible narrow and weak, the 

 former generally without mammiionn process on posterior Ijorder; 

 horizontal ramus of mandible weak; teeth small. 



Measuremmts. — ^Average of 6 adult males from t3rpe locality: Total 

 length, 145 (141-150); tail vertebrje, 24.9 (22-2H); land foot, IS (17- 

 19J. Average of 10 adult females from typelocahty: 138.8 (131-148j; 

 22.6 (21-26) ; 17.3 (16-18). Shdl: Average of 6 skulls of adult males 

 from tjrpe locality: Greatest length, 31.7 (31.3-32J; palatilar length, 

 12.9 (12.4-13.3); mastoidal breadth, 16.6 (16-16.8); interorbital 



1 Collection Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College. 

 '■^ Collection Amer. 31us. Nat. Hist. 



2 Collection Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 * Collection Univ. Michigan Mus. 



