MAMMALIA. 747 



Sp Otolicnus galago WAGN., Galago senegalensis GEOFFB. SAINT-HILAIRE, 

 Magasin encyclopedique, I. 1796, p. 20, PL i (fig. cop. in SCHKEB. Sdugth. 

 Tab. 38 B), AUDEB. Galago, PL I. GUERIN Iconogr., Mammif. PL 6, 

 fig. i, CUVEEK R. Ani., 3d. ill., Mammif. PL 21, fig. 2, (under the 

 wrong name of Lemur potto GM.) ; chief colour grey, passing into pale 

 yellow on the legs, tail brown. Dispersed through great part of Africa, 

 Senegal, Sennaar (RUEPPELL), Mosambique (PETERS), Kafferland (SMITH 

 Otolicnus Moholi). Otolicnus crassicaudatus WAGN., Galago crassicau- 

 datus GEOFFR. SAINT-HILAIRE, Grand Galago Cuv. It. Ani. I. 1817, PL i, 

 fig. i, PETERS Mossamb., Sdugth. Tab. n. ; of the size of a rabbit ; in the 

 south-eastern part of Africa. These animals feed on fruits and insects ; in 

 a small species from the coast of Guinea, Otolicnus Peli TEMM. (Esquisses 

 Zool. p. 45), nothing was found in the stomach but remains of insects. On 

 the anatomy of this little Galago compare the Academical Essay of Dr 

 P. HOECKEMA KINGMA Eenigc ontleedkundige AanteeTdningen over den Oto- 

 licnus Peli. Leiden, 1855, 8vo, with a plate. 



Microcebus GEOFFR, WAGN., PETERS. (Small species differing 

 from Otolicnus in having the ears more hairy, facial whiskers, and 

 upper incisors broader.) 



Sp. Otolicnus pusillus, Galago Madagascariensis GEOFF., Microcebus murinus 

 WAGN., Rat de Madagascar, BUFF. Suppl. m. PL 20, AUDEB. Malcis, PL 8 ; 

 Microcebus myoxinus PET. L 1. Tab. in. ; both species from Madagascar. 



Phalanx II. Nails of second and third fingers of soles incurved, 

 subulate, sub-erect. Upper incisor teeth contiguous. 



Tarsius STOKE. Incisor teeth _ , subulate, middle upper longer 



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than external, lower oblique ; canines ^ =- , molars ^ , false 



-^ , conic, the true molars with several acute conical tubercles, 

 o o 



Eyes very large. Ears ample, somewhat naked. Hind feet very 

 long, with tarsus elongate. Tail much longer than body, tufted at 

 the tip. 



Sp. Tarsius spectrum GEOFFR., Lemur spectrum PALL. (Glir.); le tarsier 

 BUFFON, xin. PL 9; B. S. NAU, NaturforscJier, xxv.i79i, Tab. i., AUDEB. 

 Makis, le Tarsier, fig. i, GUERIN Iconogr., Mammif. PL 6, fig. 4 ; grey- 

 brown ; this remarkable little animal lives in forests, leaps like a frog, and 

 is found at Celebes, Borneo, Banca, &c. and also at the Philippine Islands. 

 The various species which have been proposed for adoption are not suffi- 

 ciently distinct. On the anatomy BURMEISTER has made important con- 

 tributions in his interesting Monograph : Beitrage zur ndhern Kenntniss der 

 Gattung Tarsius. Mit 7 Tafeln. Berlin, 1846, 4to. 



Family XLY. &imim. Incisor teeth four in both jaws, ap- 

 proximate; canines distinct, conic, longer than incisors, upper 



