94 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE AVAHI LEMURS. GENUS AVAHIS. 

 Avahi^ Jourdan, C. R., Journal I'lnst., ii., no. 62, p. 231 



(1834). 

 Avahis, Milne-Edwards and Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag., 

 Mamm., i., p. 320 (with full synonymy). 



This genus is monotypic, containing but a single species, 

 whose characters include necessarily those of the genus. 



L THE WOOLLY AVAHL AVAHIS LANIGER. 



Lemur liifiiger, Gm., Syst. Nat., i., p. 44, no. 10 (1788). 



Microrhynchus laniger^ Jourdan, Thbse inaug. Soc. Phys., Gre- 

 noble, 1834; Mivart, P. Z. S., 1866, p. 151, pi. xv. 



Avahis laniger^ Milne-Edwards and Grandid., Hist. Nat 

 Madag., Mamm., p. 325 (with full synonymy), Atlas, pis. 



9, 10. 



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Characters. — Fur woolly; the head nearly round; the face 

 short in proportion to the head ; muzzle short, covered with 

 hair ; the nose and region of the chin hairy ; nose-pad on lip 

 large ; nostrils opening into a cavity on the upper lip below 

 the skin. Eyes large, the pupil vertical ; ears small, concealed 

 in fur. Tail a little longer than the body ; body short, stumpy. 

 Third, fourth and fifth fingers flattened ; third and fourth- toes 

 united by a membrane as far as the first joint. 



Cranium more vaulted and the muzzle remarkably shorter 

 than in the genera Lidris and Propithecus ; eye-sockets very 

 large ; the space between the eyes hollow. Temporal ridges 

 not uniting into a single median ridge. Nasal bones projecting 

 as far as the front end of the very small pre^maxillary bone 

 Lower jaw remarkably deep and broad behind ; line of union 

 of its two halves nearly half the length of the jaw, and in a 



