74 LEMTJRID^. 



Prosiinia melanocephala, Gray, P. Z. .8. 1803, p. 137, t. 18 ! 



Young of same specimen (perhaps a hybrid with some other 

 yellow-puffed species). Head rather paler ; spot on side of the neck 

 rather yellower and more silky and puff-like. B. IT. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



4. Prosimia mongoz. The Woolli/ Maucaco, B. M. 



Fur reddish grey ; throat, chest, and beneath reddish grey ; the 

 crown of the head black ; face, chin, streak up the forehead and 

 across the crown of the head black ; cheeks and sides of the forehead 

 iron-grey. 



Lemur mongoz, Linn. Mongous, Buffon, H. N. xiii. p. 298, t. 26. 

 Lemur albifrons of Menageries. Woolly Maucaco, Penn. Prosimia 

 (Mico) mongoz, Lesson ; Gray ! Mongoz, £dtv. Glean, i. t. 216. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



The specimens of this species vary in the breadth of the band or 

 streak on the head ; but it is always known by the black nose and the 

 iron-grey spot on each side of the forehead. Skull elongate, length 

 3" 6'", breadth 2" ; canines very large ; interorbital space broad, 

 convex ; forehead flat ; orbits produced on the sides. 



**** Temple rufous, the hair elongated (forming a hind of whisker) 

 beneath. 



5. Prosiinia rufifrons. 



Fur grey, with two small white cross streaks on each side of the 

 rump ; throat and beneath rufous ; nose and line up the middle of 

 the forehead black ; sides of nose, cheeks, and large spot on each side 

 of the forehead white ; tail blackish, rather rufous at the base. 



Lemm" mougoz, Schreh. Sdugeth. i. t. 39 a (moderate). Lemur rufi- 

 froDS, liennett, P. Z. S. 1833, p._ 106 ; Fraser, P. Z. S. 1845 ; Zool 

 Typica, t. (bad). Prosimia rulifi'ous, Lesson; Gray ! 



Hah. Madagascar. B. M. 



Both Schreber's and Fraser's figures leave out the peculiar stripes 

 on the side of the rump. 



Lemur rufus (Geoff.), Mali roux (Audeb. Makis, t. 2), seems 

 to resemble tliis species ; but we have it not : it may be 

 only a varietJ^ 



Lemur rujiventcr (I. Geoff. Cat. Mamm. p. 71) and Lemur Jlaviventer 

 (I. Geoft\ Cat. Mamm. p. 72) are probably allied species. 



6. Prosiinia xanthomystax. B. M. 



Fur grey brown, with a broad, black, indistinct dorsal streak ; 

 chin, chest, and beneath pale rufous ; head and back of neck black ; 

 a large puffy spot on each side of the throat under the ear bright 



