78 LEMURID.T,. 



2. Cheirogaleus typicus. B. M. 



Reddish brown ; checks, throat, and beneath white ; orbits black- 

 ish ; tail cjlindi'ical ; fur on outside of ears blackish. 



Cheirogaleus typicus, A. Smith, S. African Juurnal, ii. ; Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. JB. M. p. 17 ; P. Z. 8. 18G3, p. 142. 

 Hah. Madagascar. 



Length of foot 2"; length of head about 2", and width about 1|", 

 as well as it can be measured on a stuffed sj^ecimen. 



3. Cheirogaleus Smithii. B. M. 



Palo bay ; chin and beneath jiale yellow ; outside of ears pale 

 brown ; orbits blackish ; streak on nose and between the orbits 

 white ; the hairs are slate-coloiu- at the base. 



Cheirogaleus Smithii, Gray, Ann. ^ Slay. N. II. 1842, x. p. 257 ; Cat. 

 Mamm. B. M. p. 16 ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 143. Microcebus pusillus, 

 Watcrlwuse, Cat. 3Ius. Z. S. ed. 2. p. 12. no. 80. Le Hat de Mada- 

 gascar, Buffon, Supp. iii. t. 20 ? 



Hah. Madagascar. 



Length of hind foot 1" 2'". 



This specimen is about one-fourth the size of O. typicus. It 

 may be the young of it ; but the teeth, so far as one can see in a 

 stuffed specimen, appear to be perfect. 



There is a specimen in spirits in the British Museum, from the 

 Zoological Society, that was named Microcebus jnisilhis by Mr. 

 Waterhouse in the second edition of the Catalogue of the Museum 

 of that Society, which agrees with this animal in almost all particu- 

 lars ; but the ears appear larger and bald, and the fur of the under 

 part of the body whiter — perhaps both particulars arising from its 

 having been preserved in spirits. The length of the feet and the 

 teeth agree ; but the feet and, especially, the hands are white and 

 hairy, while in the dry specimen they are brown and nearly -ndthout 

 hair. 



It is sad to observe the persistence with which an error may be 

 endowed. Vigors and Horsfield, in the ' Zoological Journal ' in 

 1828, described an American Douroucouli as a Lemur, under the 

 name of Cheiroi/aleus Commersoml, believing that it came from Ma- 

 dagascar. This error was soon corrected ; but Lesson retains it 

 among the Lemuridae, and renamed it Glicehus rufus ; Schinz, in 

 his ' Systematic Catalogue,' published in 1844, still retains it, and 

 calls it Scartes r-ufus (vol. i. p. 102) ; andGiebel, ' Die Siiugethiere,' 

 published in 1859, p. 1018, still regards it as a Cheirogaleus. 



Le Rat de Madagascar (BufFon, Supp. iii. t. 20) well represents 

 this animal ; but it has been considered the type of the genus 

 Microcebus, which is described as ha^'ing a long slender foot. 



The foUomng generic and specific names have been applied to this 

 animal : — 



Microcebus, Geoff. 1828. jMyseelnis, Lesson, 1840. Mvocebus, Schinz, 

 1844. 



