110 MIXOCEBUS 



GENUS MIXOCEBUS. THE HATTOCK. 



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MIXOCEBUS Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874, 

 p. 690, Taf. I-II. Type Mixocebus caniceps Peters. 



Nose pointed ; pad naked ; eyes very large ; ears small, rounded, 

 mostly hidden in the fur, sparsely covered with hair; arms and legs 

 long ; fingers and toes with flat nails ; tail as long as body. Skull : inter- 

 parietal bone not lacking, but coalesced with parietal ; incisors small, 

 only one upper on either side ; line of tooth rows slightly convex. 



Mixocebus caniceps Peters. 



Mixocebus caniceps Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1874, p. 690, Taf. I, II ; Forbes, Handb. Primates, 1, 1894, p. 78. 



THE HATTOCK. 



Type locality. Madagascar. Type in Berlin Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Unknown. 



Genl. Char. Those of the genus. About the size of Galago 

 CRASSICAUDATUS, tail slightly longer than body, thick. 



Color. Top of head dark gray, black spot in center ; upper parts of 

 body, and outer side of limbs sooty brown ; under part of thighs ochra- 

 ceous buff; hands blackish brown, feet paler, the buff of base of fur 

 showing; forehead whitish gray; sides of head above and below ears 

 whitish ; sides of nose, and bar under eye blackish brown ; brownish 

 band across chest ; patch on sides of lower neck ; under parts and inner 

 sides of thighs buff ; inner side of arms and legs sooty brown ; tail sooty 

 grayish brown on basal half, grading into blackish brown at tip; ears 

 flesh color. Ex type Berlin Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 635 ; tail, 335. Skull : total length, 

 60; occipito-nasal length, 58; zygomatic width, 34; intertemporal 

 width, 25 ; length of nasals, 15 ; length of lower molar series, 19.5. Ex 

 type Berlin Museum. 



A Lemur-like animal about the size of Myoxicebus griseus with 

 a long thick tail. The skull has a broad and heavy rostral region, two 

 very small upper incisors, the molars with three cusps, two outer and 

 one inner; the second upper premolars with a small inner cusp. The 

 exact locality where this animal was found is not given by Peters who 

 only states it came from Madagascar. The type is unique. 



