1015.] 



SCALOPUS AQUATICUS PARVUS. 



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All the specimens from Anastasia Island are here provisionally 

 called anastasse, although additional material may result in some 

 change of decision. Were the specimens from Espanita older indi- 

 viduals, their skulls might be inseparable from those from Point 

 Romo. The topotype series was taken about two weeks later in the 

 year than that from Espanita. Two weeks is a short time for changes 

 in the pelage, yet such changes are apparently rapid in Scalopus, and 

 it would not be entirely impossible for the full winter pelage of the 

 mole at Espanita to develop before molting into a pelage similar to 

 that of the topotype series. 



Specimens examined. — Total number, 8, as follows : 



Florida: Espanita, Anastasia Island, 4;^ Point Romo (type locality), Anastasia 

 Island, 4.2 



SCALOPUS AQUATICUS PARVUS (Rhoads). 



Little Mole. 



(PI. II, fig. 5; PI. Ill, figs. 4, 4a.) 



Scalops parvus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1894, p. 157, 1894. 

 [Scalops] [aquaticus] parvus Elliot, Field Columb. Mus., publ. 45, zool. series, vol. 2, 

 p. 390, 1901. 



Type locality. — ^Tarpon Springs, Hillsboro County, Florida. 



Type specimen. — No. 8468, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (No. 1468, 

 Rhoads collection) ; $ adult, skin and skull; collected December 24, 

 1893, by W. S. Dickinson. 



Geograpliic range. — Region north of Tampa Bay, in Hillsboro and 

 Pasco Counties, Fla. 



General cliaracters. — Smallest of the genus; tail relatively short, 

 shorter than that of S. a. australis; color much like australis; skull 

 small, weak; rostrum very narrow (narrower than that of australis). 



Color. — Full winter pelage: Much like corresponding pelage of S. a. 

 australis; back sepia or dark sepia, becoming pinkish cinnamon or 

 ochraceous-buff on nose; underparts slightly paler than back and 

 showing dark neutral gray of base of hairs, sometimes tinged with 

 cinnamon-brown. 



Slcull. — Like that of S. a. australis but smaller, weaker, and with 

 rostrum actually and relatively narrower; teeth small. 



Measurements. — Average of 3 adult males from Port Tampa City, 

 Fla.: Total length, 134.3 (131-136); tail vertebra?, 19.7 (19-20.5); 

 hind foot, 16.8 (16.5-17). Slcull: Average of 3 skulls of adult males 

 from Port Tampa City, Fla.: Greatest length, 30.6 (30.2-31.2); 

 palatilar length, 12.7 (12.5-12.9); mastoidal breadth, 15.7 (15.5- 

 15.8); interorbital breadth, 7.1 (7.1-7.3); maxillary tooth tow, 9.8 



1 Collection Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 



3 Collection Mus. Comp. Zool, Harvard College, 



