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Genus Lichanotus. lUiger. 

 Incisoys \, cajiines]], molars ^i, — 32. Superior incisors in 

 pairs ; inferior ones inclined, the outer most of each side broadest; 

 molars with a tubeculous croion ; tivo pectoral mamma: ; lower 

 Jaw shorter than the upper ; tail very short or none. 



Lichanotus niger. (Black Jndii.) Black with a greyish 

 tinge towards the lower part of the belly ; rump white, or pale 

 tawny ; face greyish, and of a lengthened or dog-like form ; fiir 

 silky, dense, and in sonic places curled; tail very short. 

 Height three feet and a half. Sonnerat. 



Inhabits Madatrascar. 



Lemur Indri, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 42. Indris hrevicaudatus, 

 Geoif. Ann. du Mus.x]x. 157. Lichanotus Indri, lUig. Prod. 

 72 Indri, Sonnini, Voy. 142. Indri Macauco, Penn. Quad. 

 1. 228. Lemur Indri^ Shaw, Zool. vol. I. part 1. p. 9i. Jig. 32. 



Genus Indris. Lacepede. 



Incisors {, canines [ \, molars \ \ — 30. Upper jaw, — Incisors 

 very small, placed in pairs much apart; canines short, triangu- 

 lar and pointed ; Jirstand second molars with three acute tubercles 

 nearly in a line, second and third with four tubercles, the two on 

 the outer sides siibdivided, the two on the inner entire and blunt, ■ 

 last with three tubercles, one on each side, and the third behind 

 in the form of a. transverse rid^e. Under jaw, — Incisors nearlif 

 horizontal, slightly curved, and the outermost on each side largest; 

 canines lying forwards, obtusely pointed and scarcely projecting 

 beyond the molars ; first molar with three tubercles, second, 

 third, and last, with four or five. Head rounded; face short 

 and covered with far ; muzzle bare ; tail as long as the body; 

 posterior extretnites much longer than the anterior ones; nail of 

 index finger of hvtder hands long and rafher slender. 



Indris laniger. (Flocky Lemur.) Colour ahove a reddish or 

 tawny grey, slightly freckled by the tips of many of the hairs, 

 particularly those of the upper part of the head, being silvery 

 white ; rump and vent tawny white ; under part of neck, breast, 

 belly, and insidcs of anterior extremities, pale ashy black, or 

 greyish white tinted with reddish brown ; hands, face, and 

 sides of head, more or less ferruginous ; insidcs of liinder ex- 

 tremities, toward body, pure white ; tail deep ferrughious ; ex- 

 tremity of muzzle and anterior portion of upper jaw black; 

 near angle of lower jaw, on eacli side, a small somewhat circular 

 white spot ; tliumbs and fingers black. Length of head, twy 

 inched, of body ten aud a half; tail ten inches and a half. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Lemur laniger, Lin. Gm. Syst. Nat. 1. 44. Indris longi- 

 <caudatus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xix. 1.78. Lichanotus laniger. 



