12 TARSI US 



Taesius featerculus Miller. 



Tarsius fraterculus Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXVIII, 

 1910, p. 404. 



Type locality. Sevilla, Bohol, Philippine Islands. 



Genl. Char. Similar to T. philippinensis but smaller. 



Color. Upper parts, sides of body and outer side of limbs ochra- 

 ceous buff; chest and abdomen buff, base of hairs slate gray showing 

 through ; inner side of limbs buff ; forehead and face reddish ; tail 

 mostly naked reddish, hands reddish. Ex type. Bur. Philipp. Govt. 



Measurements. Total length, 330; tail, 210; foot, 60. Skull: total 

 length, 37.9; occipito-nasal length, 35.9; Hensel, 13.8; intertemporal 

 width, 20; zygomatic width, 26.4; palatal length, 12.9; m.edian length 

 of nasals, .71 ; length of upper molar series, 12.3 ; length of mandible, 

 24.1 ; length of lower molar series, 12.5. Ex type. Bur. Laboratories, 

 Manilla, Philipp. Govern. 



This is a small representative of the Philippine Tarsier. 



Taesius sanghikensis Meyer. 



Tarsius sanghirensis Meyer, Abhand. Berich. Konigl. Zool. u. An- 

 throp.-Ethnog. Mus. Dresd., 1897, No. 1, p. 9; Thos., Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., XIV, 1896, p. 381. 



SANGHIR TARSIER. 



Type locality. Island of Sanghir, Philippine Archipelago. 



Genl. Char. Very near T. philippinensis, but apparently differs 

 in having the forehead, nose and cheeks buffy white. 



Color. Like T. philippinensis, but forehead, nose and cheeks 

 buffy white. 



Dr. Meyer does not describe this species, but has contented himself 

 with comparing it with T. fuscus and showing where it differs from 

 that species. This was easy for it has nothing to do with T. fuscus, 

 but is very doubtfully separable from T. philippinensis. Dr. 

 Meyer does not show where his animal differs from that species, though 

 he says it is allied to it ; in fact, if the figure in the plate is colored cor- 

 rectly, it does differ from all known Tarsiers, in its buffy white fore- 

 head, nose and cheeks. 



This, however, is an unsatisfactory conclusion to reach, because it 

 would seem incredible, if the Sanghir examples possessed this remark- 

 able peculiarity, that Dr. Meyer did not mention it. 



I could not find the type of T. sanghirensis in the Dresden 

 Museum and doubt if it is there, and so could not compare it with T. 



