08 TjEUXTBIdm. 



legs bright-red chestnut ; circumference of face and forehead 

 whito. Hab. Bolivia. 



•*** Nose and lips black. Tamarin. 



6. Midas ursulus. The Tamarin. B. M. 



Black ; hinder part of the back rather mottled with greyish white. 

 Var. 1. Hands black. B. M. 



Tamarin negre,' Buffon, Supp. vii. t. 32. Midas ursulus, Geoff. Jac- 

 chus tamarin, Gray ! 



Var. 2. Hands yellow or orange. B. M. 



Tamarin, Buffon, II. N. xv. p. 92, t. 13. Simla Midas, Linn. Midas 

 rufimanus, Geoff. S. Lacepedii, Fischer , Bull. Soc. Moscow, 1800, 

 p. 23. M. Lacepedii, Slack, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil. 1801, p. 401. 



Hah. Brazil. 



19. SENI0CEBUS. 



Head naked in front ; hinder part of head covered with short 

 hairs. Ears bald, exposed. Tail not ringed. Lower cutting-teeth 

 short, truncated. Canines conical. 



(Edipus, part., Lesson. 



Seniocebus bicolor. B. M. 



Grey, brown-punctulated ; back of head, neck, chest, and fore legs 

 white ; tail black above, brownish beneath and at the tip. 



Young. Face rather hairy ; forehead naked. 



Midas bicolor, Spix, Bras. p. 31, t. 24. f. 1. (Edipus titi, junior, 

 Lesson. Hapale bicolor, Wagner ; Schreb. v. t. 12. 



Hab. Brazil. 



Fam. IV. LEMURIDiE. 



Cutting-teeth -| or ^, dissimilar ; upper small, separate in pairs, 

 vertical ; lower larger, contiguous, shelving forward ; the two outer 

 larger, opposed to the space between the upper cutting-teeth and 

 the canines (they aro probably the lower canines). The fingers and 

 toes free, well developed ; the first toe shorter. Claw of the second 

 toe subulate ; of the first elongate, curved ; the others flat. Hab. 

 Old continent : Africa, Madagascar, or India. Nocturnal; sleeping 

 in the day, rolled into a ball, with the tail between the hind legs 

 and convolute round the body. 



Lemuridfe, Gray, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 131. 



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