Otrfjrnphic'tl Races of the Klnhajou. 2<)7 



3. Potos fianis, Scliicl). (typical). 



Ci^loiir as in aztecus. A well-marked dor-al stro.ilc. 

 Guiana. 



4. Pot OS f. meriJensis', subsp. n. 



Colour and streak as lujluvusj but size smaller. 

 I\Ioritla, Venezuela. 



5. Potosf. modest us, subsp. n. 



Size very small and tail short. Colour rather darker than 

 in J^du us. Dorsal streak present. 

 AV. Ecuador. 



The original " Lemur Jlav us ^^ of Schrebcr * ex Peimant's 

 " Yellow Maucaco " was said to have come from Jamaica, 

 but may be safely assigned to the " caudivoloalus " f of the 

 same author from Surinam, with which its description closely 

 agrees, and this may therefore be treated as the type locality 

 for both. 



It is difficult to know how to deal with Martin's Cerco- 

 leptis meyalotus and brachijotus ^^ described from menagerie 

 sj)ecimens without localities, and the characters used being 

 mainly due, according to Gray, to the "artifice of the pre- 

 server." C bracliyotus certainly .cannot be identified with 

 any tf the races above enumerated, although it is possible 

 that there may really exist a much shorter-eared form than 

 the usual one, for two specimens in the Museum, one from 

 " Central America " and the other (without skull) frouj 

 K. Ecuador, have much shorter ears than other specimens; 

 but 1 am not satisfied in either case that the difference is 

 natural. In any event the name may be put aside for the 

 present as indeterminable. 



C. viejiilutus, on the other hand, agrees so closely in colour 

 with the Colombian form, whicii is the only one that can be 

 said to be "deep reddish yellow or fulvous, with an obscure 

 (dorsal) band," that I think it advisable to identity it with 

 that animal. An example from Medellin agrees best with 

 the description, but other specimens from Costa iiica [Salvin), 

 Valdivia, Colombia {Pratt), and Santa Marta {Eiujellct) 

 cannot be distinguished from it. The dorsal stripe is some- 



* Sauj?. i. pi. xlii. (1774). 



t I'lLcrra cuinliculcula, up. cit. iii. p. 4i>>, pi. c.xxv. u (1777). 



J r. Z. S. Ib.JU, p. 81. 



