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Show 1885.] ON A NEW ROOENT OF THE GENUS CCELOGENYS. 161 The Genoa specimen measured, according to Dr. Gestro-total length 377 millim., length of snout 53 millim. As has been already stated (p. 155), even in the largest specimens of E. acanthion, with a total length of 440-448 millim., the length of the snout does not exceed 53 millim.; and it may therefore be taken as granted that E. lawesi has the snout decidedly longer than E. acanthion. The description of the covering of the skin and the colour does not seem to show any definite difference. Certainly Mr. Ramsay says of Ei. lawesi, " Some of the long cylindrical spines are altogether white, some all black, some particoloured with white or black tips." To this can be noted, that altogether white spines are very scarce or absent in all specimens of E. acanthion, and that none of the particoloured spines have white tips but these are always black-tipped. Furthermore the hairs of the back as stated above are perfectly hidden between the spines in E. acanthion ; while Mr. Ramsay says of E. lawesi, " A few black hairs are scattered through the spines and on the sides of the body," and Dr. Gestro of the specimen in Genoa, " Entre les epines il y a des poiles tres-visibles." Thus the hair-covering between the spines seems to be less scanty in E. lawesi than in E. acanthion. Further, the length of the bare portion of the snout in E. acanthion (in consequence of the shortness of the snout itself) is never two inches, as in the type specimen of E. lawesi, but even in the largest specimens but a little more than one inch and a half. 4. Description d'un nouveau Rongeur du genre Ccelogenys. Par JEAN STOLZMANN. [Received January 16, 1885.] Pendant mon dernier voyage dans la republique de l'Equadeur on m'a souvent parle d'un quadrupede, nomme par les indigenes "Sacha-cui," 1 tandis que le paca (Ccelogenys paca) y est connu sous le nom de " Gualilla." De la description, donnee par les habitants du pays, je supposais que l'animal en question pouvait appartenir au meme genre de Ccelogenys. Mais comme ce dernier habite les contrees tres chaudes et se tient toujours au voisinage des eaux, tandis que le " Sacha-cui " est propre a. une haute region, renfermee entre 6000 et 10,000 pieds au dessus du niveau de la mer, frequent ant souvent les lieux tres eloignes des courants d'eau, je supposais qu'il s'agit d'un quadrupede inconnu, et apres m'en avoir procure une paire d'individus adultes, j'ai reconnu que j'avais raison. Je donne done sa description, en lui proposant le nom du CCELOGENYS TACZANOWSKII. C. fusco-brunneus, subtus cdbicans, lateribus quaternis seriebus 1 " Sacha" (indien) = la foret; " cui" (indien) = cavia. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1885, No. XI. 11 |