104 MICROCEBUS 



Azema smithi Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, 



Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 134, Appendix; Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1872, p. 856, fig. 4, p. 857. 

 Murilemur murinus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1872, p. 857. 

 Chirogaleus ( !) pusillus Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 



492; Fowler and Lydekk., Anim. Living and Extinct, 1891, 



p. 690. 

 Cheirogaleus ( !) myoxinus Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, 



p. 326, (nee Peters). 

 Microcebus smithi Major, Novit. Zool., I, 1894, p. 12 ; Shaw, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 135. 

 Microcebus minor griseorufus Kollm., Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., 



Paris, No. 6, 1910, p. 304. 

 Microcebus minor minor Kollm., Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris, 



No. 6, 1910, p. 304. 

 Microcebus pusillus minor smithi Kollm., Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Nat., Paris, No. 6, 1910, p. 304. 

 Microcebus minor rufus Kollm., Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris, 



No. 6, 1910, p. 304. 



MILLER'S DWARF LEMUR. 



Type locality. Madagascar. 



Geogr. Distr. Betsileo Province to Fort Dauphin on the south east 

 coast of Madagascar, and on the south west coast northerly from St. 

 Augustine Bay. The exact limits of the species' dispersion cannot be 

 said to have yet been definitely ascertained. 



Color. Two phases, rufous brown or gray. The first has the head 

 rusty brown ; orbital ring and upper lip black ; stripe between eyes and 

 on nose, grayish white ; upper parts of body rufous brown ; dorsal line 

 indistinct; sides of body and outer side of limbs mouse gray washed 

 with rufous brown ; entire under parts and inner side of limbs white, 

 base of hairs plumbeous, this hue often showing on the surface; tail 

 rufous brown like the back, but sometimes much paler ; hands and feet 

 gray. The other phase is mouse gray above, the back washed with 

 rufous, a rufous spot over each eye; outer side of limbs mouse gray; 

 entire under parts white ; tail pale rufous. 



Measurements. Total length about 300 ; tail, 150; foot, 26. Skull : 

 occipito-nasal length, 33; Hensel, 20; zygomatic width, 21; inter- 

 temporal width, 16; palatal length, 11; median length of nasals, 8; 

 width of braincase, 17; length of upper molar series, 8; length of 

 mandible, 19; length of lower molar series, 9. 



