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ways — can be found meandering about in all directions, almost any¬ 
where in the drier soil. It is very easily trapped with the Wherry 
mole trap, or any of the devices that work on the same general 
principle. 
Some moles taken by Mr. Brown on Ossabaw Island are a trifle 
larger than those from the main land opposite, and their skulls are 
rather longer and more slender. These differences, though now 
trifling, may perhaps in time, if exaggerated by the insulation of the 
animal, produce a race different from the main-land form. Those 
taken at St. Catherine’s and Cumberland Islands apparently do not 
differ in any way from A. a. australis. 
I have a large series of A. a. australis as follows: Georgia: Hurs- 
man’s Lake, ten; Pinetucky, three; Montgomery, three; Sterling, 
one; Barrington, two; Cumberland Island, two; Ossabaw Island, 
four ; St. Catherine’s Island, four. Florida: New Berlin, three; 
Point Matanzas, three; Oak Lodge, twenty-two; and Gainesville, 
eleven. 
ScALOPS ANASTASAE Sp. 110V. 
Type from Point Romo, Anastasia Island, Florida. $ adult, 
No. 7,192, collection of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected, February 
16, 1897, by O. Bangs. 
General characters. Size of A. a. australis , color beautiful 
golden brown; skull short, massive; mandible heavy; dentition 
normal. 
Color. In fresh pelage, deep, lustrous, golden ochraceous, with 
somewhat of an olivaceous or “ old gold ” cast, much marked with 
deep orange about wrists, on head, and on under jDarts. In worn 
pelage, golden buff. Feet, hands, and tail, flesh color; nails, white. 
Cranial characters. The skull of A. anastasae as compared with 
that of A. aquaticus australis is shorter, more compact, and heavier, 
more solid. It is less constricted in the interorbital region, and the 
brain case is rather higher; mandible shorter, heavier throughout, 
and in old age becoming heavily ossified and filled in between the 
two halves. The dentition is like that of A. australis. 
Skull, the type, $ adult: greatest length, 31 ; basal length, 26.6 ; 
zygomatic breadth, 14; mastoid breadth, 16.6; interorbital con¬ 
striction, 7; greatest length of single half of mandible, 19.6. 
