142 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



Red-bellied Lemur 



LEMUR RUBRIVENTER I. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire 



Lemur rubriventer I. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. [Paris], 



vol. 31, p. 876 (1850), 1851. ("Madagascar.") 

 SYNONYMS: Lemur flaviventer I. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire (1851); L. rujiventer 



J. E. Gray (1870); Prosimia rufipes J. E. Gray (1871). 

 FIGS.: Milne Edwards and Grandidier, 1890, pis. 167-170; J. E. Gray, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London 1872, pi. 69. 



Even 30 years ago this species was considered rather rare on the 

 eastern coast of Madagascar (Kaudern, 1915, p. 47) . 



It may be distinguished from all the other lemurs by the rufous- 

 chestnut of its under parts, limbs, and ruff; upper parts speckled 

 rufous-brown; tail blackish (I. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 1851, p. 876). 

 Elliot (1913, vol. 1, p. 152) adds the following details from the type 

 (a male) in Paris: line from forehead, top of nose, and lips maroon; 

 head above mixed dark brown and buff; body above chocolate- 

 brown; base of tail maroon, rest blackish; total length, 711 mm.; 

 tail, 407 mm. Schlegel's measurements (1876, p. 311) are larger: 

 total length, 38 inches; tail, 20 inches. 



Schwarz (1931, p. 417) records specimens from the following 

 localities: Vohemar, NE. coast; Bay of Antongil; Betsimisaraka 

 country, west of Tamatave; Tamatave, NE. coast; Forest of Ankay, 

 NE. of Tananarive; Ambohimitombo and Ivohimanitra, N. Tanala 

 country; Vinanitelo, "SW." [=SE.] Betsileo; Manakara River, SE. 

 coast; Mojanga, Bay of Bombetoka; and Morondava, W. coast. "If 

 all these records are correct the range of L. rubriventer includes the 

 greater part of Madagascar, not only the eastern forest region, as 

 has hitherto been supposed." 



Delacour (1932, p. 219) records 21 specimens collected by the 

 Mission Zoologique Franco-Anglo-Americaine of 1929-31. 



"This diurnal lemur was found in small parties similar to the 

 groups of L. julvus. One party contained at least four adults and 

 five young. To the west of Andapa [in northeastern Madagascar] 

 . . . eight young . . . were taken with the adults." (Rand, 1935, 

 p. 98.) 



Ruffed Lemur. Vari (Fr.) 



LEMUR VARIEGATUS Kerr 



L[emur] Macaco variegatus Kerr, Anim. Kingdom of Linnaeus, p. 86, 1792. 



(Based upon the "Vari" of Smellie's Buffon (vol. 7, pi. 229, 1791?); type 



locality, "the islands of Madagascar and Johanna, and the neighbouring 



countries of Africa" = Madagascar.) 

 SYNONYMS: Lemur ruber 1C. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire (1812); Prosimia erythro- 



mela Lesson (1840); Lemur varius I. Geoffroy (1851). 



