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Article XXII— NEW SOUTH AMERICAN MAMMALS. 
By do A: Aue 
Dasyprocta fuliginosa candelensis subsp. nov. 
Type, No. 33902, 9 ad., La Candela (altitude 6500 feet), Huila, Colombia, 
May 11, 1912; Leo E. Miller. 
Midline of back, from the shoulders posteriorly, deep black; rest of the upper- 
parts with the hairs black for the greater part of their length, annulated near the tip 
with white or pale yellow, giving a grizzled gray general effect, the variegation vary- 
ing in different specimens from slight (black prevailing) to profuse (gray prevailing) ; 
ventral surface grizzled with dusky and white, the base of the hairs dusky and the 
tips broadly ringed with white, with a broad mid-ventral line of clear white; feet 
wholly black or black with the tips of the hairs minutely punctated with white or 
yellowish white. | 
Field measurements (type), total length, 570 mm.; tail, 30; hind foot (c. u.), 130. 
Type and 3 paratypes, total length, 550 (530-570); tail, 25 (20-80); hind foot, 130 
(all 130). Skull (type), total length, 122.7; condylobasal length, 116; zygomatic 
breadth, 52.5; interorbital breadth, 31; diastema, 32; maxillary toothrow, 21.5. 
The type skull is that of an old female, in which the basioccipito-basisphenoid suture 
is obliterated by ankylosis. A paratype skull of an old female, perfectly compar- 
able in age with the type, is much shorter and less massive, the total length being 
111, the condylobasal length 103.5, zygomatic breadth 53, interorbital 30, diastema 
29, maxillary toothrow 29.3. An adult male skull (the basioccipito-basisphenoid 
suture still open) agrees closely with the last mentioned old female in all cranial 
measurements. | 
Represented by 4 adult specimens, all from near the type locality (altitudes of 
3000 to 6500 feet), as follows: La Candela, 1; San Agustin, 1; Andalucia, 1; and 1 
without definite locality (through loss of the collector’s label), but doubtless from one 
of these three localities. : 
A furrier’s skin from the Bogota district is referable also to this subspecies, indi- 
cating that it ranges northward along the eastern slope of the Eastern Andes to the 
vicinity of Bogota, a range common to various other rodents of this region. 
D. fuliginosa candelensis is darker even than typical fuligenosa, to which 
it is more nearly related, both morphologically and geographically, than to 
any other known form of the genus. 
The type locality of Dasyprocta fuliginosa Wagler’ is not definitely 
1 Dasyprocta fuliginosa WAGLER, Isis, 1832, p. 1220. ‘‘Habitat in Brasilia versus flumen 
Amazonum.’” Based on a young specimen obtained by Spix (apud Wagner, I. c., 1844, p. 48). 
Dasyprocta nigricans WAGNER, Arch. f. Naturg., 1842, I, p. 362. ‘‘Von Borba am 
Madairo und vom Rio Negro oberhalb des Cocuy.’’— WaaGner, Schreber’s Siug., Suppl., 
IV, 1844, p. 48. 
Dasyprocta nigra Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., X, p. 264, Dec. 1842. ‘‘South 
America.’’ — Gray, Voyage Sulphur, I, 1844, Mamm., p. 36, pl. xvi. ‘‘ Tropical America.” 
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