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upper pre-molar less than the anterior molar. Length of in- 
testine, 20 inches; caecum blunt, 134 inches long; main arteries 
of fore- and hind-limbs not broken up into a ve/e miradile 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. 
Il. THE DORMOUSE DWARF-LEMUR. MICROCEBUS MYOXINUS. 
Microcebus myoxinus, Peters, Reis, Mossamb. Zool., 1., Sau- 
geth., pp. 14-20, Taf. iil. and iv. (1852); Forsyth Major, 
Nov. Zool., vol. i., p. 11 (1894). 
Characters—Head Cat-like and round; muzzle pointed and 
broader than in JZ, 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 itis beneath. Two 
pairs of teats, one pair on the breast, and one pair on the 
abdomen. . 
Resembles JZ 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. 
