78 GAL AGO 



Type locality. West Africa. Type in the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Geogr. Distr. Cameroon, West Africa. 



Genl. Char. Ears short; tail very long with white spot at tip; 

 first upper premolar canine like ; no lachrymo-malar suture, the malar 

 placed further backward than in other species. 



Color. Upper parts pale cinnamon rufous, paler on the rump ; 

 dark cinnamon rufous dorsal band from head to lower back, indistinct 

 upon the neck; forehead gray washed with cinnamon; orbital rings 

 black; line from forehead over nose gray; outer side of arms dull 

 russet ; outer side of legs wood brown ; entire under parts of body, and 

 inner side of limbs slate color washed with yellowish white, the hairs 

 being tipped with that hue ; hands and feet broccoli brown ; ears dark 

 mars brown; tail at base above like the back, remainder drab, some- 

 times grayish with a white tip, beneath slate color washed with white. 

 Ex type Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Measurements. Total length, about 580; tail, 260. Skull: (not 

 the type), occipito-nasal length, 44; Hensel, 34; zygomatic width, 35; 

 intertemporal width, 20; palatal length, 15; median length of nasals, 

 11 ; length of upper molar series, 13 ; length of mandible, 30; length of 

 lower molar series, 14. 



This form is distinguishable from others of the genus by the 

 bright rufous upper parts, and by the yellowish brown tail, sometimes 

 grayish and tipped with white. The color of the upper parts is quite 

 different from that exhibited by the other members of the genus. The 

 type is still of a very bright cinnamon rufous on back. No skull for 

 the type specimen. 



G.ALAGO ELEGANTULUS TONSOR Dollman. 



Galago elegantulus tensor Dollman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., V, 8th 

 Ser., 1910, p. 94. 



Type locality. 15 miles from mouth of Benito River, Spanish 

 Guinea, West Africa. 



Genl. Char. Similar to G. elegantulus but paler ; skull smaller. 



Geogr. Distr. Benito River, Spanish Guinea, and Efulan, Came- 

 roon, West Africa. 



Color. General color pale orange, dorsal line brighter; face and 

 sides of head gray; top of head gray washed with pale buff; under 

 parts, and inner side of limbs grayish white ; outer side of arms gray 

 and buff; of legs yellowish gray: hands and feet gray; tail on basal 



