APPENDIX 257 



A work that is extremely rare in Europe and America has very 

 lately been acquired for the Library of the American Museum of 

 Natural History in New York, viz., "Memoires concernant I'Histoire 

 naturelle de I'Empire Chinois par des Peres de la compagnie de Jesus," 

 and published in "Chang-Hai." In the fourth volume of the series 

 is a description of a Tarsius from Mindanao, Philippine Archipelago, 

 by P. M. Heude, SJ., as follows : 



SUBORDER LEMUROIDEA. 



FAMILY TARSIID/E. 

 GENUS TARSIUS. 



Tarsius carbonarius Heude, 4, 1899, p. 164, pi. XXXHI, figs. 4, 

 5, 6, 7. 



Type locality. "Golfe de Davao, et vallee du rio Pulangui," Island 

 of Mindanao, Philippine Archipelago. 



Descr. "Cette espece se distingue de I'espece type, par la forme 

 de ses premolaires superieures, le developpement des molaires, I'etroi- 

 tesse de la longueur plus grande du crane. On m'a dit qu'il mangeait 

 du charbon." 



The author compares this Mindanao example with one from 

 Java, from which it is of course quite distinct, but he is obviously 

 ignorant of T. philippixensis Meyer, also from Mindanao, described 

 in 1894, five years previously, from which his proposed new species 

 cannot evidently be separated. It will be noticed that in the lines I 

 have italicized the author repeats the fable of these animals eating 

 charcoal ! 



T. carbonarius Heude will therefore become a synonym of T. 

 PHiLippiNENSis Meyer. 



GAI.AGO cocos Heller. 



Galago moholi cocos Heller, Smith. Misc. Coll., 60. 1912, p. 1. 



Type locality. Mazeras, British East Africa. Type in United 

 States National Museum. 



Genl. Char. Color above on dorsal surface, cinnamon ; base of 

 hair on under parts plumbeous ; last upper molar large. 



Color. Nose broccoli brown with a white line on center to middle 

 of forehead ; cheeks grayish buff ; lips whitish ; occiput umber 

 brown ; dorsal surface cinnamon ; chin, throat and sides of neck 



