. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 40 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPAEATIVE ZOOLOGY. uallyinto color of sides; toes and fingers, whitish; upper surface of feet and hands, brownish ; ears, dusky; tail, dusky all round for two thirds of its length, white all around for the terminal third. Measurements. — Type, adult 9 > with unworn teeth, total length, 215 ; tail vertebrse, 130; hind foot, 23; ear, 15. Skull, basal length, ; occipito- nasal length, ; mastoid width, ; length of nasals, ; length of pal- ate to palatal notch, 10 ; length of pa
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 40 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPAEATIVE ZOOLOGY. uallyinto color of sides; toes and fingers, whitish; upper surface of feet and hands, brownish ; ears, dusky; tail, dusky all round for two thirds of its length, white all around for the terminal third. Measurements. — Type, adult 9 > with unworn teeth, total length, 215 ; tail vertebrse, 130; hind foot, 23; ear, 15. Skull, basal length, ; occipito- nasal length, ; mastoid width, ; length of nasals, ; length of pal- ate to palatal notch, 10 ; length of palatal slits, ; upper molar series, ; single half of mandible, ReTiiarks. — The type and only specimen of this remarkable little animal^ is an adult 9 > but with unworn teeth, so probably it is not full grown, and old adults would be still larger. Externally it bears a somewhat superficial re- semblance to the woolly Oryzomys, of the subgenus Erioryzomys. The single specimen was caught on the cold, barren summit of the Volcan de Chiriqui. Akodon teguina apricus,i subsp. nov. Type. —Mu3. Comp. Zool., No. 10,236, old ad. 9, Boquete, February 24, 1901. 4000 feet. Five specimens, Boquete, 4,000 to 5,000 feet, February and April, Characters. —Colors not so black as in true A. teguina (the rump and thighs in true A. teguina are blackish, in the new form they are scarcely darker than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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