106 MICROCEBUS 



MiCROCEBUS MYOXiNUS Peters. 



Microcebus myoxinus Peters, Naturvv. Reis. Mossamb., Zool., 

 Saugeth., I, 1852, pp. 14-20, Taf. Ill, Taf. IV, 6-9; Mivart, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 640; Gray, Cat. Monkeys, 

 Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 88; Fit- 

 zing., Sitzungsb. Metth. Nat. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1870, p. 927 ; 

 Major, Novit. Zool., I, 1894, p. 11 ; Forbes, Handb. Primates, 

 I, 1894, p. 56. 



Lepilemur ( !) myoxinus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 

 p. 144. 



Microcebus pusillus myoxinus Kollm., Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., 

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



PETERS' DWARF LEMUR. 



Type locality. Bay of Bombetok, Western Madagascar. Type in 

 Berlin Museum. 



Geogr. Dist. West and southwest coast of Madagascar from Cape 

 St. Vincent to Tullear on St. Augustine Bay. 



Genl. Char. Muzzle short ; ears large ; eyes large, round ; fourth 

 digit longest; second and fifth shortest; tail longer than body. 



Color. Head and upper part reddish brown, many hairs tipped 

 with golden yellow ; spot at lower corner of eyes, and side of nose 

 black ; stripe between eyes, white ; cheeks rufous, throat buflf ; under 

 parts of body and inner side of limbs, cream buflf ; tail dull brown, 

 darker than the back; hands and feet gray. Ex specimen in British 

 Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, about 300; tail, 150. Skull: occip- 

 ito-nasal length, 33 ; Hensel, 22 ; intertemporal width, 18 ; zygomatic 

 width, 21 ; median length of nasals, 10; length of upper molar series, 

 9; length of mandible, 20; length of lower molar series, 19. E.x type 

 in Berlin Museum. 



The type of this species is in the Berlin Museum and has evidently 

 faded considerably, for now the sides of the head, lips, entire under 

 parts and inner side of arms are white ; upper part of back is whitish 

 brown, and only the dorsal stripe on lower back is reddish brown ; tail 

 ochraceous buflf above, yellowish white beneath. It has all the appear- 

 ance of having been similar in color to the British Museum specimen 

 above described, but faded by light. 



This species is about the size of Microcebus murinus and is 

 not unlike that form in its general appearance. In fact so nearly do 

 they resemble each other that I have found, when a Mammalogist had 

 no personal knowledge of M. myoxinu.s and depended entirely upon 



