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* Erethizon epixanthum Brandt. 
1835. Erethizon epixantlius Beaxdt, Mem. acad. imp. des 
sci., St. Petersburg, 6th ser., i, p. 390. 
1885. Erethizon clorsatus epixantlius True, Proc. U. S. nat. 
mus., VII (1884), p. GOO. 1885. 
Type locality.— Northwestern America. 
Erethizon epixanthum couesi Mearns. 
1897. Erethizon ejnxanthus couesi Mearxs, Proc. U. S. nat. 
mus., XIX, p. 723. July 30, 1897. 
Ta^pe localityl — Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona. 
Erethizon epixanthum myops Merriam. 
1900. Erethizon epixanth^is nnjops Merriam, Proc. \Yashing- 
ton acad. sci., ii, ]). 27. March 14, 1900. 
Type locality. — Portage Bay, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska. 
Genus COENDOU Lacep^de. 
1799. Coendou Lacepede, Tableau des dhdsions, sous-divisions, 
ordres et genres des mammif^res, p. 11 (pul)lished as supplement 
to Discours d’ ouverture et de cl6tui-e du cours d’histoire naturelle 
et tableaux methodiques des mammiferes et des oiseaux.) Type.— 
Ilystrix prehensilis Lixxaeus. 
This name was formally adopted in place of Sinethei'us F. Cuvier 
(Mem. mus. d’hist. nat., Paris, ix, p. 433, 1822) by Trouessart 
in 1897 (Catal. mamm., pt. iii, p. 621). 
* Coendou mexicanum (Kerr). 
1792. Hystrix mexicana Kerr, Anim. kingd., i, p. 214. 
1885. Synetheres mexicanus True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 
(1884), p. 600. 1885. 
Tatpe LOCALITY'. —Mountains of Mexico. 
Coendou pallidum (Waterhouse). 
1848. Cercolahes p)<^dlidusYh Nat. hist, of mamm., 
II, p. 434. 
