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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  Chinchillida,'  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  Cuvieri.  To  this  paper  by  Dr.  Meyen,  in  which  he  enumerates  a 
much  greater  number  of  species  of  Chinchillida  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' 2,  in  which  I  have  again  reviewed  the  synonymy  of 
the  family,  with  the  view  of  endeavouring  definitely  to  establish  it. 
PLATE  XLII. 
Lagotis  pallipes. 
'  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  M^hich  the  Society's  animal  was  kept, 
2  p.  491. 
