THE SPORTIVE-LEMURS. 87 



Lepilemur palUdicauda, Gray, P. Z. S., 1872, p. 850. 

 Lepilemur mustelinus (nee. Is. Geoffr.), Schl., Mus. P. B., vii., 

 p. 317 (in part). 



Characters.— Smaller than the last species ; head much 

 broader than it is long ; snout short and conical ; ears ovate, 

 exposed, short-haired ; tail long, thicker at the end, and covered 

 with softer and longer hairs. Fur pale or reddish-grey ; head 

 dark brown ; the shoulders and outer side of the arms grey, 

 washed with brown ; chin, breast, and inner side of limbs and 

 under side of body whitish ; upper side of the base of the tail 

 rather dark brown, this colour extending further down in the 

 tail of the female ; rest of the tail uniform pale brownish or 

 greyish-red. 



Skull very broad compared with its length, more massive, 

 and showing a shorter muzzle than in Z. mustelinus ; orbits 

 smaller than in any of the other species in Group A. 



Distribution. — South- western Madagascar. 



III. MILNE-ED wards' SPORTIVE-LEMUR. LEPIDOLEMUR 



EDWARDSI. 



Lepidoleimir edzvardsi, Forsyth Major."* 



Characters. — " Similar to Z. ruficaudatus ; upper part of head 

 grey; ears membranaceous, but encircled on the inner and pos- 

 terior side by an incomplete belt of dark brown colour, which 

 distinguishes the species from Z. ruficaudatus ; shoulders and 

 outer side of the fore-limbs reddish-brown. Back greyish-brown, 

 lighter on the outer side of the hind-limbs ; an uninterrupted 

 dark dorsal streak from the middle of the back to the centre of 



* N.B.— These descriptions of new species have been kindly supplied liy 

 Dr. Forsyth Major from his MSS., and I am much indebted to him for 

 allowing them to be first published in the present work. 



