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3. PROSIMIA. 



The head without any ruff or fringe. The ears hairy externally, 

 naked at the tip, more or less exposed. The wrist hairy. The skull 

 elongate ; the face produced, rather compressed on the sides, rounded 

 above ; forehead flat. 



Prosimia, Brisson ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 137. 



a. Temple, cheek, forehead, and crown white. No. 1. 

 6. Temple, under the car, and throat white. No. 2. 

 C. Temple coloured liko the buck. Nos. 3, 4. 



d. Temple rufous, tho hair olongato beneath. Nos. 5, G. 



e. Temple and cheek rufous. Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10. 



Prosimia rufifrons is easily known by the two small white stripes 

 across each side of the rump ; P. albifrons by the white back of tho 

 head ; P. melanocephala by the black head and yellowish fur ; P. 

 xantliomystaos by the indistinct broad black stripe down the back ; 

 P. albimana by the black dorsal streak and crescent at the base of 

 tho tail and white feet ; P. coronata and P. collar is by tho rufous 

 band across the forehead. 



* Temple, cheek, forehead, and crown white. 

 1. Prosimia albifrons. The White-fronted Maucaco. B. M. 



Grey brown, hairs minutely punctulated ; face and end of the tail 

 black ; hinder part of the head, including the forehead, cheeks, 

 temples, and base of ears, pure white ; chest, belly, and inside of the 

 limbs Avhitish grey. 



Lemur albifrons, Geoff. ; Audeb. Makis, t. 3 ; Bennett, Zool. Gardens, 

 i. p. 299, fig. ; Hoeven, Nat. Tijdsch. xi. t. 1. f. 2 (a skull). L. 

 Frederici, Schinz, p. 112. Prosimia albifrons, Gray 1 Lesson. 



Hub. Madagascar. Living in the Zoological Gardens. 



* * Temple, under the car, and throat white. 



2. Prosimia nigrifrons. B. M 



Blackish or grey, greyer on tho sides beneath ; base of the ears 

 reddish white ; cheek, throat, and chest white ; noso grey ; orbits, 

 forehead, cheeks, and end of the tail black or blackish. 



Lemur nigrifrons, Geoff. ; Bennett, Zool. Gard. i. p. 301, fig. ; Pettier, 

 Gaz. t. 17. f. 8. Prosimia ocularis, Lesson. P. nigrifrons, Gray ! 



Hab. Madagascar. 



* * * Temple coloured like the back. 

 3. Prosimia melanocephala. B. M. 



Fur yellowish brown, washed with black ; chin and beneath pale 

 rufous ; head black above ; cheeks, under the ears, with a convex 

 puff of hair of the same colour as the back ; tail brown, blacker at 

 the end ; hands and feet dark reddish brown. 



