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LHMUMlKi:. 



3. Varecia leucomystax. 



Groyj patch on lower part of back and fringe round the face 

 white. 



Lemur leucomystax, Bartlctt, P. Z. S. 18G2, p. 347, pi. 41. Varecia 

 leucomystax, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 186 ! 



Ilab. Madagascar. Living in the Zoological Gardens. 



2. LEMUR. 



Face without any ruff. Ears hairy externally. The hand with a 

 bald line up the inside of the wrist, ending in a bald spot above. 

 Tho tail ringed. A dark gland on the middle of the rump. Upper 

 cutting-teeth subequal, rather shelving. Skull with the forehead 

 convex ; face rather compressed, round above. 



Lemur, Linn. ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 13G. Procebus, Storr. Fro- 

 simia, part., Brisson. 



Lemur catta. The Ring -tailed Lemur, B. M. 



Ashy ; sides of back brownish ; chest and belly, sides of face, ears, 

 and frontal spot whito ; orbit and end of muzzle blackish ; limbs 

 greyer. 



Ring-tailed Maucaco, Penn. Syn. Lemur catta, Linn. S.N. i.p. 45; 

 Geoff. Ann. du Mas. xix.t. 02 ; Gray ! Maucaco. Julio. Birds, iv. 

 1. 11)7; Schreb. t. 41 ; Shaw, Mas. Lever. t. 11. Mocaco, Buff'on, H. 

 N. xiii. t, 22; Mem. Mus. t. ; Audeb. Makis, t. 14. f. 4; F. Cuv. 

 Mamm. Lith. t. Prosimia catta, Lesson, Sp. M. p. 223. Procebus 

 cinerea, Brisson, p. 157. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



Skull quite adult, length 3" 2'", breadth 1" 10'"; the interorbital 

 space flattened; narrow ; forehead convex. 



Fig. 2. 



Lemur catta. (Huxley.) 



