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species and called the group »les Atherures"', his type was 

 macroura Linaé and not fascicidaia Linné as Cuvier erro- 

 neously wrote (fasciculata being a specific-name given by 

 Shaw), and as appears from the description of his type, 

 viz.: »la queue terminée par un faisceau de lanières cor- 

 nees applaties et étranglées d' espace en espace". Cuvier 

 moreover confounded Buffon's figure with that of Seba 

 (see Règne animal, 1829, I, p. 215, note). If we accept 

 Cuvier's generic-title, Atherura, then the two species with 

 »la queue terminée par un faisceau de lanières cornées 

 applaties et étraiiglées d' espace en espace" belong to it, viz: 

 macroura Linné and africana Gray, meanwhile fasciculata 

 Shaw ought to bear another generic-title. 



Dr. Giinther described P. Z. S. L. 1876 a Porcupine from 

 West-Borneo under the name Trickys lipura (Mr. Old- 

 field Thomas proposed in 1889 the name Gilntheri), agreeing 

 exactly with three specimens from Malacca, collected by 

 the late Diard and since iu the Leyden Museum , besides 

 one specimen collected by Büttikofer at the foot of Mount 

 Kenepai, 20 November 1893: Waterhouse having studied 

 these three Malaccan specimens , brought them under the 

 head fasciculata Shaw, and Dr. Giinther having examined 

 one of them said that they are identical with his Trichys- 

 specimens. The reason why Dr. Günther could not accept 

 the identity of his lipura with fasciculata Shaw we find 

 in P. Z. S. L. 1889, p. 76, viz.: » fasciculata of Bufion'and 

 Shaw is a Porcupine with long ') spines of a different 

 coloration and with a thick ^) bundle of terminal quills at 

 the end of the tail and , probably ^) , identical with ma- 

 croura" . Buffon's figure, however, of le pore- epic de Malacca 

 is as badly drawn as Buffon's other figures , f. i. those of 

 rAye Vaye de Madagascar, of le Loris de Bengale and others 

 and so in looking at the plates we should always compare 

 what he says in the descriptions. And in the description 

 of le Porc-4pic de Malacca there is no word about long 



1) I italicize. 



IS^otes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XVI. 



