30 African Zoology. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Lemur collaris, Geoff. Anrt.Mus. x\Ti. 161. IMaki d'Aiijouan 

 Moi]s;ous, Fur. F. Cuv. Mam, 



Prosimia albimanus. (White-handed Lemur.) Fur {rrcy- 

 Ijrown above ; sides of the neck a red-cinnamon colour ; breast 

 and hands white ; belly reddish. Body fourteen ©r fifteen 

 inches long. ' 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Lemur Albimanus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. x'lx. l60. Maki aux 

 pieds blancs. Bris. Reg. J nim. 221. Mougous, Aud. hist. 



Prosimia Macaco. (Ruffed Lemur.) The ears, the sides of 

 the head, the upper and lateral pans of the neck, the space 

 between the shoulders, the back, the sides and the outer parts 

 of the fore arms and of the posterior extremities, white; the 

 lower portion of the face with a thin sprinkling of short white 

 hair: all other parts deep black ; the tail in some specimens 

 slightly grizzled with white ; eyes yellow. Length from nose 

 to base of tail twenty-one inches ; tail the same length. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Lemur Macaco, Lin. Gm. Vari. Lemur Macaco, Geoff. 

 Anti. Mus. xix. 159. Vari, Buff. xiii. Aud.^gi. 5. Ruffed Le- 

 mur, Pen. Quad. 1. 231. 



Prosinaa subcincta. (Girdled Lemur.) The sides of the 

 head, the under and lateral parts of the neck, the rump, the 

 outer sides of the fore arms and of the posterior extremities, 

 together with a narrow and nearly complete belt, immediately 

 behind the shoulders, white ; the lower portion of the face 

 thinly co\ ered with short white hair ; eyes orange coloured : 

 all other parts black. Size rather inferior to that of the pre- 

 ceding species. 



Inhabits Rladagascar. 



Vari a ceinture, Geoff'. jS. H. Aud. Jig. 6. 



Ohs, This and the last species liave generally heen considered as 

 identical. In their native country they live apart from eacli other; and 

 as males, fi'niales, and young ones of both kinds, are readily procurable, 

 there can be no reason for longer regarding them as not distinct species. 



Genus Perodicticus. Bennet.. 



Upper jaw, — Incisors four, nearly equal; canines two, conicai 

 and compressed with their anterior and posterior edges acute ; 

 firi>t molar smallest, second larcjer, both conical, the third sharp' 

 ly tuberculaled, tioo tuberclts on the outer edge and one oh the 

 inner ; fourth like the third, with the inside tubercle largest, the 

 others not ascertained. Under jaw, — Incisors six, slender and 

 inclined; canines like those above; the first and second molars 



