58 ALLEN’S NATURALIST’S LIBRARY. 
Microcebus smithit, Mivart, P. Z. S., 1864, p. 641; Forsyth 
Major, Nov. Zool., vol. 1., p. 12; Taf. i., figs. 3-4, 12 
and 13 (1894) (with full synonymy). 
(Plate V7.) 
Characters. —Closely related to the foregoing ; the fur in most 
specimens less woolly than in the other species; eyes large ; 
snout longer and more pointed ; ears shorter, less than half the 
length of the head; ankles proportionally shorter ; fingers and 
toes longer; fur generally darker, the tail not markedly 
different from the back, very Rat-like in form ; the dark marks 
in front of the eye extending to the tip of the nose; inside 
of the ears more ferruginous; size about that of a Rat. 
Muzzle longer and more pointed than in JZ, myoxinus; pre- 
maxille more produced in front, and nasals more produced 
above the nostrils; bony palate less prolonged backwards 
beyond the posterior molar, the hind perforations of the latter 
large; the line of union of the two halves of the lower jaw 
shorter than in JZ. myoxinus ; upper incisors set anterior to 
the canines, and distant from the inner margin of the pre- 
maxillz, the inner pair larger than the outer pair; the anterior 
upper pre-molar less vertically extended than the median one; 
median and posterior lower molars having the hind outer cusp 
lower and longer than the front outer cusp. 
Distribution—Smith’s Dwarf-Lemur is known from Fort 
Dauphin, on the south-east coast, from Betsileo in the centre, 
and from the south coast of Madagascar. 
Habits—Of the habits of both this and of the preceding 
species little is known, for they have rarely, if ever, been seen 
alive by Europeans. According to the Rev. G. A. Shaw, the 
present species lives in the belt of forest-land stretching from 
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