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A specimen June 23, 1919, near Hardy, Mendocino County, Cali- 
fornia, in a trap set beneath a log, which latter was several inches above 
the ground for a distance of three feet. There was no sign of an open 
burrow within eighteen inches of the trap in either direction. 
A specimen September 9, 1920, at Pleasant Valley, near Tillamook, 
Oregon, in a trap set at the edge of a blackberry thicket. Consequently, 
the ground could be examined for only a foot or more from the trap, 
but no burrow was found. 
A specimen September 17, 1920, at Netarts, Tilamook County, 
Oregon, in a trap set in a dense thicket of salal {Gaultheria shallon) 
on a hillside. There was much trash on the ground, which I carefully 
removed for three feet in all directions, but could find no burrow. 
As mentioned, these three animals were killed instantly by deep 
fractures of the skull. One can but speculate on the number of moles 
which blundered into the traps and, because of not being paralyzed at 
once, easily pulled free. 
Pasadena, California. 
CHLAMYTHERIUM SEPTENTRIONALIS, A FOSSIL EDEN- 
TATE NEW TO THE FAUNA OF TEXAS 
By Alvin R. Cahn 
[Plates 2-3] 
The discovery by Leidy^ of the large edentate Chlamytherium sep- 
tentrionalis in Cenozoic deposits of Florida was, so far as the writer 
knows, the first find of this South American genus in the United States. 
Leidy described this animal under the name of Glyptodon septentrionalis 
sp. nov., from a number of dermal scutes. These, together with other 
scutes, were subsequently referred to Chlamytherium humholdtii, a 
South American species of the genus. Sellar ds^ found more scutes and 
a right lower jaw in Pleistocene deposits of Florida, which showed that 
the North American animal was of a species distinct from the South 
American. Sellards, therefore, revives Leidy’s specific name, but re- 
tains the generic name of Chlamytherium. Previous to the discovery 
of this jaw by Sellards, the only known remains of the animal in North 
America were a number of dermal scutes, and a portion of the movable 
1 Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1889, p. 97. 
2 Sellards, E. H., Chlamytherium septentrionalis, an Edentate from the 
Pleistocene of Florida. Am. Journ. Sci., Vol. XL, 1915, pp. 139-145. 
