400 COENDU. 



Laboura Bilbberg. Syn. Faun. Scandinav., Mamm., i, 1828, 



Consp. A. 

 Cercolabes Brandt, Mamm. Exot. Nov., in Me"m. Acad. Imp. 



St. Petersb., Se"r. 3, in, 1835, p. 55. 



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Body covered with short, variously colored spines, close together, 

 and mixed with hairs; hind feet with only four toes, hallux absent; 

 fleshy pad on inner side of foot; tail prehensile. 



FIG. 77. COENDU MEXICANUM. 

 No. 102 Field Columbian Mus. Coll. i nat. size 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. 



A. Tail prehensile. 



a. Fur fulvous brown. PAGE 

 a/ Hind foot, 52 mm C. pallidum 401 



b. Fur speckled with white. 



a.' Hind foot, 71 mm C. rothschildi 401 



c. Fur black. 



a/ Hind foot, 88 mm C. mexicanum 402 



b/ Hind foot, 74 mm C. m. yucatania 402 



d. Fur blackish brown; hind foot, 75 mm C. lanatum 402 



