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upper pre-molar less than the anterior molar. Length of in- 

 testine, 20 inches; caecum blunt, i^ inches long; main arteries 

 of fore- and hind-limbs not broken up into a re/e mirabile of 

 small parallel vessels. 



Distribution. This beautiful little animal, sometimes called 

 the " Rat " of Madagascar, the smallest of all the Lemurs, is 

 known from Ambulisatra on the south-west coast of Mada- 

 gascar, and from Fort Dauphin on the south-east coast. 



II. THE DORMOUSE DWARF-LEMUR. MICROCEBUS MYOXINUS. 



Microcebus myoxinus, Peters, Reis, Mossamb. Zool., i., Sau- 

 geth., pp. 14-20, Taf. iii. and iv. (1852); Forsyth Major, 

 Nov. Zool., vol. i., p. ii (1894). 



Characters, Head Cat-like and round ; muzzle pointed and 

 broader than in M. minor. Ears large, one-third shorter than 

 the head and short-haired ; eyes large and round. Fourth digit 

 of hand longest ; second and fifth shortest. Tail longer than 

 the body, its hair stronger and shorter than on the body, but 

 longer at the tip and on the upper side than it is beneath. Two 

 pairs of teats, one pair on the breast, and one pair on the 

 abdomen. 



Resembles M. minor, but is redder in colour. Back reddish- 

 yellow, washed with ferruginous, brighter on the forehead and 

 under the eyes ; a dark brown spot on the upper and lower 

 corners of the eyes ; sides of body between the limbs, hands 

 and wrists, feet and ankles, as well as the external margins of the 

 limbs, and the whole under side, as well as a spot on the brow, 

 a line down the centre of the nose, and the sides of the 

 head and cheeks, pure white, washed with yellowish-brown. 



