380 Mr. J. E. Gray on some species of Cercolabes. 



This species is exactly intermediate between Cytispora and 

 Spharopsis, scarcely agreeing with either genus ; resembling the 

 former in its delicate perithecium and oozing spores, and the 

 latter in its simple cavity and spores. In both these points how- 

 ever an approach is made to Cytispora, therefore the predomi- 

 nance of characters points to this rather than the other. Nerna- 

 spora yrisea, Corda, is we believe a young Diplodia, 



437. Micropera Drupacearum, Lev. Ann. des Sc. Nat. May 

 1846, p. 283. On dead branches of cherry, King^s Cliffe. 



Centhospora Phacidioides, b. Desm. no. 1626= Cytispora folii- 

 cola, Lib. no. 64 = Cijt. pulveracea, Berk. Br. Fl. vol. v. P. 2. 

 p. 282. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXIV. — On the species of Cercolabes confounded under the 

 name ofC. prehensilis. By J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., Pres. 

 Bot. Soc. &c. 



Mr. Waterhouse in his ' History of Mammalia^ observes, that 

 C. prehensilis ^' is frequently met with in Brazil and Guiana, and 

 it occurs likewise in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a district of Bolivia, 

 in which nearly all the mammalia are identical in species with 

 those of Brazil," ii. 411. Further on he proceeds to describe 

 a specimen in the British Museum brought from Bolivia by 

 Mr. Bridges. 



When Mr. Waterhouse made these observations the specimen 

 was not stuffed, and he could not examine the skull ; since that 

 period the skull has been removed, and I think its examination 

 proves that the Bolivian species is perfectly distinct from those 

 which are received from Brazil. 



It may be thus defined : — 



1. Cei'colabes prehensilis. Brazilian Coendou. 



Black and white varied. Quills white, with a broad subtermi- 

 nal reddish brown (or black) band ; under part of the body and 

 upper part of the base of the tail whitish, under part of the base 

 and end of the tail dark brown ; whiskers slender, black to the 

 base ; upper cutting-teeth smooth in front. 



Young. Fur reddish with a few scattered spines. 



Hab. Brazils, adult and young. 



Var. ? On spines and uuder part and end of tail black. 



Half- grown ? 



llab. Spanish Main. 



2. Cercolabes Boliviensis. Bolivian Coendou. 



AVhite, slightly black varied. Quills white, with a rather nar- 



