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words : "I have been quite unable to detect any cranial or dental 

 characters which would justify a subdivision of the genus 

 Lemur." He divides the Lemurid^e into four subfamilies with 

 fifteen genera, an arrangement that has not been adopted, 

 as the species of several of the genera, such as Daubentonia, 

 Tarsius, and Nycticebus etc., are considered as possessing 

 characters sufficiently distinctive to make their species repre- 

 sentative of independent Families. 



1867. St. George Mivart, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London. 



This is a supplementary paper to the one mentioned above, in 

 which the genera Cheirogale and Microcebus are compared 

 and the differences found to be few, but "it will be possible 

 (and perhaps even useful) still to retain, provisionally at least. 

 the distinction between Cheirogaleus (!) and Microcebus, 

 though reposing mainly, if not exclusively on a few cranial and 

 dental characters." Lepidolemur is also discussed and is con- 

 sidered not to have any marked relationship to any other genus. 

 The tarsal structure of these three genera and that of Galago is 

 compared. 



1868. Schlegel and Pollen, Recherches sur la Faune de Madagascar. 

 Lemur nigrifrons from the Island of Mayotte redescribed as 

 L. mayottensis. 



1870. Fitzinger, in Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der 

 Wissenschaften zu Wien. 



In a revision of what he calls the order of Half apes 'Halbaflfen,' 

 under the genus Lemur, this Author gives a list of the known 

 forms with their synonymy considerably mixed, continuing the 

 errors of previous writers, and adding some of his own. The 

 following valid species are given : L. catta ; L. macaco ; L. 

 mongoz ; L. ALBiFRONS ; L. rufifrons ; L. coronatus ; L. ruber 

 = L. V. ruber; L. rubriventer; and L. nigrifrons. The other 

 forms recognized are, L. collaris — L. fulvus; L. macaco- 

 griseo-maculatus = L. variegatus Kerr ; Lemur macaco albus 

 possibly an albino of L. varieg.\tus Kerr; Lemur niger — L. 

 macaco Linn. ; L. anjuanensis = L. mongos ; L. chrysampyx = 

 L. coronatus ; L. flaviventer = L. rubriventer ; L. albimanus = 

 L. MONGOs; L. cuvieri = L. mongos; and L. brunneus = L. 

 fulvus. 



1870. /. E. Gray, Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating 

 Bats, in the Collection of the British Museum. 



