334 MR. E. T. BENNETT’S REMARKS ON THE GENUS LAGOTIS. 
In conclusion it is necessary for me to remark that nearly at the same time with 
the reading of my communication ‘On the Chinchillide,’ Dr. Meyen read before the 
Imperial German Academy of Naturalists a paper on various animals collected by him 
in Peru and Chili, in which he described, under the name of Lagidium, the genus which 
I had previously designated as Lagotis': his type, Lagidium Peruanum, appears to be 
identical with Lagotis Cuviert. To this paper by Dr. Meyen, in which he enumerates a 
much greater number of species of Chinchillide than appear to me to have yet been 
satisfactorily ascertained, I have adverted in a communication printed in the fifth 
volume of the ‘ Zoological Journal’?, in which I have again reviewed the synonymy of 
the family, with the view of endeavouring definitely to establish it. 
PLATE XLII. 
LaGoris PALLIPES. 
1 Dr. Meyen’s Paper was communicated to the Imperial Academy in March, 1833: mine was communicated 
to the Zoological Society in May of the same year. But the genus Lagotis had been characterized by me, so 
far as its external characters could be ascertained from the living specimen, at a Meeting of the Committee of 
Science and Correspondence in June, 1832, and the name then given was affixed, throughout the life of the 
individual, to the cage in which the Society’s animal was kept. 
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