332 MR. E. T. BENNETT’S REMARKS ON THE GENUS LAGOTIS. 
Genus Lacortis, Benn. 
1. Lacoris Cuvieri, Benn. 
Lag. auriculis caput longitudine equantibus ; vellere longiore ; caude setis albidis nigris- 
que ; pedibus cinereis. 
Hab. in Peruvia. 
2. LAGOTIS PALLIPES. 
Lag. auriculis capite brevioribus ; vellere brevi ; caude@ setis ferrugineis ; ventre pedibusque 
fulvescentibus, his pallidioribus. 
Hab. in Chiliz montosis. 
The general form of the body of Lag. pallipes is apparently similar to that of Lag. Cu- 
vieri, but the comparative brevity of the fur will probably deprive the animal, when 
seated in its usual position, of much of that resemblance to a ball of wool which may 
be fancied to exist in Lag. Cuviert. The long and remarkable whiskers are scarcely so 
heavy, so numerous, so rigid, or so long as those of Lag. Cuvieri; and some of the 
less elongated of the bristles composing them are entirely white, whereas in Lag. Cu- 
vieri the whole of the bristles of the whiskers are jet-black. The want of naked muzzle 
and the form and direction of the nostrils correspond in both species: the position of 
the eyes is also similar. The ears have the parallelogrammic form of those of Lag. Cu- 
vieri, and are about two inches in length by three quarters in breadth, the length of the 
head anterior to their base being two inches and a half: the folds of the ears and the 
supplementary auricle are the same in both species. The outside of the ear is sparingly 
clothed with short dark adpressed hairs, which become more numerous towards the 
margins ; their inner side is also sparingly furnished with hairs, which are longer and 
looser than those of the outer surface, and are nearly white: the darkly coloured hairs 
of the outer side project slightly beyond the upper edge of the ear, forming a fringe to 
the extremity of its lobe. 
The general proportion of the limbs to the body and to each other is apparently 
similar to that which obtains in Lag. Cuvieri. On the anterior feet the toes, similar in 
number, are similarly covered above with stiff hairs, which pass down between them, 
and also conceal the short, sharpish claws: the pads of the sole equally correspond in 
number and position. The hinder feet are also like those of Lag. Cuvieri, in the num- 
ber and relative proportion of the toes, in their mode of covering, in the form of the 
claws (including the widening and flattening of the inner one, adapted, with its over- 
hanging covering of stiff, horny, comb-like bristles, for the cleaning and disentangling 
of the fur), and in the number, form, and position of the pads of the soles. 
The fur of Lag. pallipes is, perhaps, even softer to the touch than that of Lag. Cuvieri ; 
a feel which is probably owing to its being less dense, on account of the comparative 
shortness of the hairs composing it: the fur of Lag. Cuvieri imparts to the hand the 
sensation of fullness and consequent firmness, that of Lag. pallipes is yielding with its 
