128 MYOXICEBU S 



This animal seems separable from H. griseus. It is much darker 

 and of quite a different color on both the upper and under parts of the 

 body. The type is in good preservation and has a young one by its side, 

 showing the same coloration. It is not stated in what part of Mada- 

 gascar it was procured, but a skin in the study collection obtained by 

 M. Lentz is labelled as having been taken at Ampazenambe. 



Myoxicebus simus (Gray). 



Hapalemur ( !) simus Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit- 

 eating Bats, Brit. Mus. 1870, p. 828, pi. LII, figs. 1-4, (skull) ; 

 Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 491, fig. 9 ; 501, fig. 14 ; 

 Shaw, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 132 ; Bartl., Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 768 ; 1884, p. 391 ; Schlegel, Notes Leyd. 

 Mus., II, 1880, p. 45 ; Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus., VII, 1885, 

 p. 33, pi. I, figs. 1, 2, pi. II, figs. 1, 2; Bedd., Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1884, p. 892; Forbes. Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 82. 



Prolemur simus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 851. 



BROAD-NOSED GENTLE LEMUR. 



Type locality. Madagascar. No locality given. Type in British 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. North east coast of Madagascar. Antongil, (Jen- 

 tink) ; Nandisu, Betsileo, (T. Waters. Ex Brit. Mus. spec). 



Genl. Char. Size large ; nose broad, truncate ; ears short, covered 

 with long hairs externally, and on the margin ; no spines above wrist. 



Color. Nose black; top of head, and back and sides of neck 

 rufous; cheeks, and beneath ears buff; lower part of back, sides of 

 body, and outer side of limbs mouse color; yellowish spot on rump; 

 throat, breast, and inner side of limbs pale ochraceous ; under side of 

 body yellowish white ; hands, feet, and tail blackish gray. Ex type 

 British Museum. 



Measurements. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 81; Hensel, 63.6; 

 zygomatic width, 65.5 ; palatal length, 33.2 ; width of braincase, 48.8 ; 

 median length of nasals, 29.2 ; length of upper molar series, 31.3 ; length 

 of mandible, 60.7 ; length of lower molar series, 39. Ex type British 

 Museum. 



This species has been confounded with M. griseus (E. Geoff.), by 

 various writers, and Gray himself thought it might be M. oliv.\ceus 

 (I. Geoff.), though he maintained it was not the same as M. griseus. 



It is a much larger animal than that species, and the skulls if com- 



