60 LEMURIDJE. 



legs bright-red chestnut ; circumference of face and forehead 

 white. Hah. Bolivia. 



**** Kose and lips black. Tamarin. 

 6. Midas ursulus. T7ie Tamarin, B. M. 



Black ; hinder part of the back rather mottled with greyish white. 

 Var. 1. Hands black. B. M. 



Tamarin negre, Buffon, Supp. vii. t. 32. Midas ursulus, Geoff. Jac- 

 chus tamarin, Gray ! 



Var. 2. Hands yellow or orange. B, M. 



Tamarin, Bufon, H. N. xv. p. 92, t. 13. Simla Midas, Linn. Midas 

 rufimanus, Geoff. S. Lacepedii, Fischer, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1806, 

 p. 23. M. Lacepedii, Slack, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil. 1861, p. 461. 



Hah. Brazil. 



19. SENIOCEBUS. 



Head naked in front; hinder part of head covered with short 

 hairs. Ears bald, exposed. Tail not ringed. Lower cutting-teeth 

 short, truncated. Canines conical. 



CEdipus, part.. Lesson. 



Seniocebus bicolor. B. M. 



Grey, brown -punctulated ; back of head, neck, chest, and fore legs 

 white ; tail black above, brownish beneath and at the tip. 



Toung. Face rather hairy ; forehead naked. 



Midas bicolor, <S);?'r, Bras. p. 31, t. 24. f. 1. ffidipus titi, junior, 

 Lesson. Hapale bicolor, Wagner ; Schreb. v. t. 12. 



Hah. Brazil. 



Fam. IV. LEMURID^. 



Cutting-teeth ^ or ^, dissimilar ; upper small, separate in pairs, 

 vertical ; lower larger, contiguous, shelving forward ; the two outer 

 larger, opposed to the space between the upper cutting-teeth and 

 the canines (they are probablj' the lower canines). The fingers and 

 toes free, well developed ; the first toe shorter. Claw of the second 

 toe subulate ; of the first elongate, curved ; the others flat. Hab. 

 Old continent : Africa, Madagascar, or India. Nocturnal ; sleeping 

 in the day, rolled into a ball, with the tail between the hind legs 

 and convolute round the body. 



Lemuridffi, Graij, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 131. 



