ALTILILEMU R 113 



Microcebus samati Kollm., Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris, 1910, 

 No. 6. p. 302. 



SAMAVS FAT-TAILED LEMUR. 



Type locality. Bourbon, west coast of Madagascar. Type in 

 Paris Museum? 



Genl. Char. Size small, tail long, thick at base ; fur thick, woolly ; 

 nose short, broad. 



Color. Above dark gray washed with ferruginous, hair tipped 

 with silver gray ; a circle around the eyes, extending on to sides of nose 

 blackish brown ; between eyes white ; cheeks, chin, throat and under 

 surface of body, and inner side of limbs yellowish white, in some 

 examples fulvous ; tail above like back, beneath yellowish white. Ex 

 type ? C. samati in Paris Museum. 



Measurements. Total length about 352 ; tail, 161 ; foot, 36. Skull : 

 occipito-nasal length, 42; Hensel, 34; zygomatic width, 27; inter- 

 temporal width, 12; palatal length, IS; width of braincase, 21 ; nasals, 

 13; length of upper tooth row with canines, 19; length of mandible, 

 25 ; length of molar series, 12. Ex British Museum Specimen, Moron- 

 dava, Madagascar. 



The cheeks and under parts of the type have faded almost to a 

 white, but the upper parts retain most of their original color. The 

 ticket on the specimen states that the species is the "Chirogaleus medius 

 (Geoflf.), C. samati (Grand.), Type," from which I infer it is Gran- 

 didier's type and not Geoffrey's. The example was procured by Gran- 

 didier at Bourbon, West coast of Madagascar. Mivart states, (1. c.) 

 that Prof. A. Milne-Edwards informed him that C. samati Grandid., 

 was the same as C. medius E. Geoffroy. 



E. Geoffroy's type of C. medius, if the one above mentioned is not 

 it, is not in the collection of the Paris Museum. 



Altililemur thomasi Major. 



Opolemur ( !) thomasi F. Major, Novit. Zool., I, 1894, p. 20, 

 pi. I, fig. 1, pi. II, fig. 2; Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894, 

 p. 63. 



THOMAS' FAT-TAILED LEMUR. 



Type locality. Fort Dauphin, south east coast of Madagascar. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from type locality. 



Genl. Char. Similar to A. medius ; posterior upper premolar 

 broader than the second and larger than in A. medius ; middle premolar 

 without inner cusp ; nasals keeled on middle line. 



