Juveniles.—The animals are born with a thick pelage of thin aristiforms and thin setiforms. The color is uniformly blackish brown. The nose, hands, feet, ears and tail are pinkish; P4 and M1 are already erupted and the second molars are included in the bony alveoli. The incisors are orthodont; the rostrum is short and the braincase is wide. The posterior part of the skull is greatly curved dorsally. No change is noticed in the pelage before the second molars erupt and become functional.

Adolescents.—As soon as the second molars become functional, the pelage starts molting on the back. The thin aristiforms are still in place but the aristiforms of the adult pelage may be noticed growing under them in an oval patch which extends from behind the shoulders caudad to the hips. At that age the first, agouti-colored aristiforms appear on the mystacial region, immediately behind the vibrissiforms. The rostrum gradually lengthens and the braincase appears to become less inflated.

By the time the third molars erupt, the aristiforms start showing among the setiforms which are now changing to agouti color in the same area on the back, while the thin aristiforms of the juvenal stage disappear. The agouti setiforms are appearing also posteriorly from the mystacial region to the sides of the head and neck and, at the same time, on the frontal region. The patch of glossy aristiforms and setiforms on the back is sharply differentiated from the dull juvenal pelage of the sides and rump. In a later stage the area of agouti setiforms on the sides of the neck extends to the outer sides of the arms and finally reaches the area on the back where the agouti setiforms were already developed.

Adults.—When the third molars become functional, the agouti setiforms are in place except for those on the upper sides of the neck. The aristiforms have now extended over their normal area of distribution. As soon as the third molars show wear, the premolars and first molars have the counterfolds isolated in the occlusal surfaces as enamel islands. Wearing gradually isolates all counterfolds.

Senile individuals.—Progression of wear soon eliminates the signs of the shallowest counterfolds from the occlusal surface and finally the tooth is reduced to a short crown with a cuplike occlusal surface completely filled with dentine. Only the main fold usually remains; it is more or less reduced in size.

From the records of the ServiÇos de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Febre Amarela, the following data for males of Proechimys longicaudatus roberti were obtained: