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body, and outer surface of limbs sooty-grey, with here and there 

 a wash of rufous ; the patch on the end of the rump and upper 

 part of the base of the tail uniform pale yellowish rust-colour; re- 

 mainder of tail sooty-grey ; from the chin to the chest yellowish- 

 grey ; under side of body and inner side of arms pale sooty-grey. 



No spines on the fore-arm above the wrist as in H. griseus. 

 In the skull, the nose is broad, square, and truncated ; the pre- 

 maxillae very small ; the lower jaw weak and narrow in front. 



Distribution. Only known from Madagascar. 



HaMts. The habits of the Broad-nosed Lemur are said to 

 differ in no respect from those of the foregoing species. 



THE SPORTIVE-LEMURS. GENUS LBPIDOLEMUR. 

 Lepilemur, Is. Geoffr., Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 75 (1851) 

 Lepidolemur, Peters, M. B. Akad. Berlin, 1874, p. 690(1874). 



This genus contains, according to Dr. Forsyth Major, as 

 many as seven species. This excellent comparative anatomist 

 has made a very careful revision of the group, and the present 

 writer has gratefully to acknowledge from him many valuable 

 notes incorporated under this section, as well as his kindness 

 in supplying for publication the diagnoses of his new species. 



Dr. Major divides these seven species into two series : (A) 

 a group of four larger species, and (B) a group of three smaller 

 species. 



The members of this genus are smaller than the True Lemurs 

 of the genus Lemur. Their head is conical and short, their 

 ears large, round, and membranaceous, and the tail is shorter 

 than the body. In this latter character and in 'their shorter 

 limbs they differ from Mixocebus. The fourth finger and toe 

 are the longest digits of their respective extremities, the nails of 

 all are keeled, and that of the great toe is very large and flat. 



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