304 LASIOPYGA 



Measurements. Total length, 1,068.4; tail, 606.2. Skull: presum- 

 ably in the specimen. 



The example above described and marked as the Type does not 

 altogether agree with Audebert's figure and description, especially as 

 regards the tail which he says is "olivatre," and figures this member 

 mainly as of a pale olive yellow without any red whatever. I saw no 

 examples in the Paris Museum like Audebert's figure, nor in any other 

 collection, and if he has made no error in his colors, the above example 

 cannot be his type and we have yet to obtain the true ascanius. 



The following is Audebert's description of his "L'Ascaigne": 

 "L'Ascaigne a treize pouces depuis le museau jusqu'a I'origine de la 

 queue ; sa face est bleu ; on remarque sur les paupieres une legere 

 teinte de violet ; les yeux sont roux, et les sourcils, formes par de long 

 poils, sont noirs ; ainsi que la partie superieure du nez, qui, a son 

 extremite est couvert de poils fins, tres-courts, et du Wane le plus 

 eclatant ; les levres sont un peu pileuses, la superieure est bleuatre, 

 I'inferieure est presque de couleur de chair; le front, le tour de la face 

 et les joues sont couvertes de poils noirs. Audessous de chaque oreille 

 on remarque une grande touflfe de poils blancs, qui divergent en partant 

 d'un centre commun, et forment une espece de rosette. Les oreilles 

 sont nues, de couleur de chair, et depassent a peine le poil, qui, en 

 general, est tres long et tres toufiFu. Le sommet de la tete, le cou, le dos 

 et la queue de cet animal, sont olivatres; la barbe, la poitrine, le ventre, 

 I'interieur des quatres membres sont d'un gris fonce, et la partie 

 exterieur des bras est noire." 



This description was taken from the living individual, then in the 

 menagerie in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. I have never seen, as I 

 have said, any specimen like it, and if we reject the example marked 

 Type in the Paris Museum, "L'Ascaigne" of Audebert will have to take 

 its place among the unknown species yet to be received. Schlegel 

 (1. c.) in his description of L. ascanius states that in his example "Le 

 Wane du dessous de la queue change, des la deuxieme tiers de la longeur 

 de cette organe, au roux, rougeatre," which is in accord with the color 

 of the tail in the type in the Paris Museum. It is possible that 

 the light in the cage may have betrayed Audebert and caused 

 him to mistake the color of the tail, as the animal would not re- 

 main quiet to have its portrait painted. At all events the discrep- 

 ancy exists, and the type and Audebert's figure and description do 

 not agree. 



