October 31, 1914 
Vol. XXVII, pp. 209-210 
PROCEEDINGS 
OK TUK 
BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 
NEW :\[AMMALS FROM COSTA RICA AND MEXICO. 
BY N. HOLLISTER. 
[Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] 
The following hitherto unci escribed forms of the red brocket 
and two-toed anteater have been found in the collection of the 
United States National Museum: 
Mazama tema cerasina sabsp. nov. 
Type from Talamanca, Costa Rica. Skin and skull of young male 
(milk premolars still in place), U. S. National Museum No. If ITT 
Collected by Prof. W. M. Gabb. Orig. No. 54. 
General characters .—.V rich colored form of Mazama tema, differing 
from both M. tema tema of Mexico and M. t. reprrticia Goldman of the 
Canal Zone in its considerably darker, more reddish, coloration. 
Color of type specimen. —Above, from iiose to withers, including most 
of outer sides of ears, dark blackish-brown ; sides of muzzle, region around 
eyes, and hairs of crown tuft mixed with reddish. Entire upperparts and 
sides of body, fore limbs to knees, and outer sides of hind limbs to points 
of bock bright reddish-chestnut, almost Hay’s russet of Ridgway, darkest 
on back and lighter and brighter on sides, hips, and limbs. Chin and 
throat warm buff, the chin crossed by a band of brownisli; lower neck 
brownish; underparts of body like sides but lighter colored, without line 
of demarcation; inguinal region dark huffy, scantily hairetl. Lower fore 
and hind limbs dark brown, the feet reddish. Tail above like rump, 
below whiti.sli. 
Two skins of older animals from the type locality are virtually like the 
type, and three skins of adnlts from Guatemala are only slightly paler, 
clearly resemliling cerasina more than they do [Mexican specimens of 
tema. 
Measurements.— Typo, horn, dry skin: Head and body, blO millimeters; 
hind foot, 235. Skull and teeth of tyi)e and of an older male from the 
type locality: Greatest length, 176, 1!)1 ; condylobasal length, 167.5,185; 
zygomatic breadth, 80.5, 82; length of nasals, 46.5, 55.6; anterior edge 
of orbit to tip of premaxillary bones, 82, 04; upper molar-premolar scries, 
58 (milk premolars in place), 54 (permanent premolars); width second 
10 —Pkoc. Bioi,. Soc. Wa.sk., Vol. XXVII, PJM. 
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