Lepilemur nmrinus. 



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a. Microcehus myoxmus, Peters, Mossamb. Siiugeth. i. p. 1-4, t. 4. 



Lepilemur mijoxinus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 144. The 

 figure of Dr. Peters agrees pretty well ^^■\i\\ the Museum 

 specimen of L. murinus ; but tlie whole colour of the fur is 

 rather darker, and the ears are larger. The figure of the 

 skull also agrees well with that of L. murinus. Tliis is not a 

 Microcehus as now restricted ; the feet are too short and 

 broad for that genus. In the figure the feet are short, two- 

 thirds of the length of the tibia. Hub. Eastern Madagascar. 

 Skull, length 1""4"' (according to the figure), breadth 10|"'. 

 It is very like Cheirocjaletis Smindi, but the ears are too large. 

 The ears are very apt to be unnaturally stretched in the stufl:- 

 ing, or the converse and allowed to shrink in the drying. 



b. Otolcmur iiyisi/mhanus, Coquerel, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1859, 



p. 459, t. "is! f. 1 (skuU). Prom Zanzibar Island. Coquerel 

 " believes it to be Cheiroc/ctleus galago." 



c. Lepilemur musteJinus, I. Geoff. Cat. Mamm. ; Archives du 



Mus. t. Rufous ; throat white ; forehead and cheeks grey ; 

 lower part of body yellowish ; the tail, hands, and lower pai't 

 of the legs yellowish grey ; outer side of the last third of the 

 tail brown ; tail two-thirds the length of the body ; ears 

 large, rounded, membranaceous, dark. Length of head and 

 body 14", of tail 10". i:/rt6. Madagascar, 1842. The descrip- 

 tion of this animal agrees in most particulars with Lepile- 

 mur, but it is said to have no upper cutting-teeth. May not 

 this be a peculiarity of the single specimen on which the 

 species is founded ? 



* * Back icitli a black streak, forked on the occijMt. 



2. Lepilemur furcifer. B.M. 



Grey ; baclc ^\^tll a streak, forked on the occijjut and extended 

 to the eyes ; end of the tail black. 



Lenuir furcifer, Bhiiuv. Odcof/r. p. 35, t. 7, 1839. C'heirogaleus fur- 

 cifer, Is. Geoff. Cheirogale, Chemi, Enci/cl. Quadrum. p. 2G9, 

 f. 218 ? Lep'ilemm- furcifer, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 145. Micro- 

 cehus furcifer, Mivurt, P. Z. S. 1804, pp. 621 (fig.), 642. 



JJab. Madagascar. 



