5. CHEIROGALEUS. 



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See Hapahmur olivaceus, I. Geoff. Cat. p. 75. Ilab. Madagascar. 



Fig. 3. 



JIapalcmur griscus. (Mivart.) 



5. CHEIROGALEUS, Geoff. 



Head very short, muzzle tapering. Ears small, hidden, bald on 

 the edge. Cutting-teeth 2 -£, the middle larger, in an arched scries 

 on sides of intermaxillarics ; the first false grinder in the upper jaw 

 large, conical, erect, like a small canine, and in the lower jaw also 

 rather large. Legs rather elongate, more equal than in the true 

 Lemurs. The feet are short and broad, about two-thirds of the 

 length of the shank. 



Myspithecus, Fr. Cuv. 1833. Myoxicebus ct Cebugale, Lesson, 1840. 

 Cheirogaleus, Geoff. ; Wagner, 1840; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 142. 



M. Isidore Geoffroy, in his account of the genus Hapalemur, 

 states that in Cheirogaleus « the cutting-teeth are in straight cross 

 lines, and the ears are membranaceous." If this is correct, the species 

 here described are not Chcirogalei. 



1. Cheirogaleus Milii. 



" Grey brown ; palpebral, sides of mouth, and whiskers black ; 



throat, chest, and belly white ; cars moderate, scarcely exserted, 



edge smooth, crest hairy ; head globose ; muzzle broad, depressed." 



Maid nain, F. Cuv. Mamm, 1821. Cheirogaleus Milii, Gcof. 1828, 



1\ Z. S. 1803, p. 142. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



