8. LKPILEMUK. 



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Fi-. 1:3. 



Lepile7nur murinus. (Mivart.) 



* B;ick uuit'orm. Species 1. 

 ** Back with black streak, forked on forehead. Species '2. 



* Back uniform. 



1. Lepilemur murinus. B. M. 



Back pale reddish grey, uuderpart of the fur deep black ; broad 

 streak up the nose between the orbits, the checks, and the underside 

 whitish ; in front of the orbits on the side of the nose brown ; tail 

 rather l)rownor, slender, rather longer than the head and body ; ears 

 ratlier largo, rounded at the end, pale, covered with short scattered 

 hairs on the outside. 



Lemur miiriiuis. Miller, Cim. Phi/s. p. 2o, t. 13. Microcebus miuinus, 

 Waterhoim', Cat. J/«s. Zoo!. Soc. p. 12. no. 90 (male). Galago 

 minor, Orai/, Ann. ^- Mni/. X. II. 1842, x. p. 2.57. ? Little Macaco, 

 Pvnn. Quad. Tiepilenna- murinus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 143. 



Ilah. Madagascar : from Zoological Society. 



ililler's figures very well represent tliis animal, but the tail is 

 more bushy and browner than in our specimens ; the feet are of the 

 proper size and form. The skuU of the adidt male has a rather 

 longer nose than those of the ty])ical Galago ; and the orljitsare very 

 largo, but scarcely so large as some of the species of that genus. Tt 

 is 1" 2|"' long, and 9^, lines broad. The two front upper cutting- 

 teeth are large and bitid, the inner ones small and eylinchical. The 

 upper canines are erect ; the lower ones are decumlient. Tlie first 

 and second upper false grinders are slightly conical and compressed. 



