CHIROGALE 93 



Chirogaleus ( !) adipicaudatus Grandid.. Compt. Rend.. XIV. Dec. 



1868; Id. Ann. Scien. Nat., X, 1868, p. 378. 

 Opolemur milii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 853. 

 Chirogale milii Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873. p. 492; F. 



Major, Novit. Zool, I, 1894, p. 21. pi. XI, figs. 1, 8, 9; Forbes, 



Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 50. 



MILIUS'S MOUSE LEMUR. 



Type locality. Madagascar. Type in Paris Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern coast of Madagascar ; Fort Dauphin to 

 Tamatave ; also in the lower wooded regions of Betsileo Province ; and 

 on the west coast from Tullare to Pasandava, Central Madagascar. 

 (Shaw). 



Genl. Char. Nose rather broad; ears moderate, sparsely haired; 

 braincase moderately arched ; orbits large ; palate extending beyond last 

 molars with rather large posterior perforations ; bullae moderately large ; 

 first premolar larger than second ; upper inner incisors broad, flat 

 at tips. 



The type of C. major Geoffroy is in the' Paris Museum and is 

 identical with his C. milii, and as the first name was published fourteen 

 years before the latter, it will of course take precedence, and milii, by 

 which appellation the species has been so long known, must become a 

 synonym. The type is in very good condition and may be described 

 as follows : orbital ring blackish brown ; whitish spot between eyes ; no 

 facial streaks; face, top and sides of head, and upper part of body to 

 rump, and the tail pale reddish brown inclining to a buff; flanks and 

 outer side of limbs, hands and feet, reddish brown or buff paler than 

 the back ; upper lip toward corner of mouth, chin, throat, inner side 

 of limbs and under part of body white. 



Measurements. Total length, 609.6; tail, 278.5; foot, 51.4. 



The type of C. milii while faded somewhat, has undergone less 

 change than most of the types of the earlier species in the Paris Mu- 

 seum. It is a reddish brown animal with a yellowish white sheen. 

 produced by the tips of the hairs, and with a long dull brownish tail 

 darkest at the tip. The species varies so considerably in color among 

 individuals that the type can only at best give an idea of but one phase 

 of coloring, with which other examples would only agree in part. 



A general description of the species would be somewhat as follows. 



Color. Varying considerably among individuals; head and neck 

 brownish gray, sometimes grizzled with silver gray washed with rufous 

 of varying intensity, this color sometimes extending over the entire 

 upper parts ; in other examples the upper parts are ashy brown ; under 



