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Fig. 14. 



Lepilemur murinus, 



8eo 



a. Microcebus myoxinus, Peters, Mossamb. Saugeth. i. p. 14, t. 4. 



Lepilemur myoccinus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 144. The 

 figure of Dr. Peters agrees pretty well with the Museum 

 specimen of L. murinus ; but the whole colour of the fur is 

 rather darker, and tho cars are larger. The figure of the 

 skull also agrees well with that of L. murinus. This is not a 

 Microcebus as now restricted ; the feet are too short and 

 broad for that genus. In the figure the feet are short, two- 

 thirds of the length of the tibia. Hub. Eastern Madagascar. 

 Skull, length 1" 4'" (according to the figure), breadth 10|'". 

 It is very like Cheiroyaleus SmitJtii, but the ears are too large. 

 The ears are very apt to be unnaturally stretched in the stuff- 

 ing, or the converse and allowed to shrink in the drying. 



b. Otolemur (igisymbanus, Coquerel, ltev. et Mag. Zool. 1851), 



p. 459, t. 18. f. 1 (skull). From Zanzibar Island. Coquerel 

 " believes it to be Cheiroyaleus galayo." 



c. Lepilemur mustelinus, I. Geoff. Cat. Mamm. ; Archives du 



Mus. t. Rufous ; throat white ; forehead and cheeks grey ; 

 lower part of body yellowish ; the tail, hands, and lower part 

 of the legs yellowish grey ; outer side of the last third of the 

 tail brown ; tail two-thirds the length of the body ; ears 

 large, rounded, membranaceous, dark. Length of head and 

 body 14", of tail 10". Hah! Madagascar, 1842. The descrip- 

 tion of this animal agrees in most particulars with Lepile- 

 mur, but it is said to havo no upper cutting-teeth. May not 

 this be a peculiarity of tho single specimen on which the 

 species is founded ? 



** Bach ivith a black streak, forked on the occiput. 



2. Lepilemur furcifer. P.M. 



Grey ; back with a streak, forked on the occiput and extended 

 to the eyes ; end of the tail black. 



Lemur furcifer, Blainv. Osteoyr. p. 35, t. 7, 1830. Clieirogaleus fur- 

 cifer, Is. Geoff. Cheirogale, CJienu, Encycl. Quadrum. p. 209, 

 f. 218 ? Lepilemur furcifer, Gray, P. Z. A*.' 1863, p. 145. Micro- 

 cebus furcifer, Mivart, P. Z. S. 18G4, pp. 021 (Hg.), 042. 



llab. Madagascar. 



