THE TRUE LEMURS. i js, 
The arcuate band from the corners of the eyes over the fore- 
head varies in breadth and depth of colour. 
Distribution. —Madagascar ; the precise locality unknown. 
VI. THE CROWNED LEMUR. LEMUR CORONATUS. 
Lemur coronatus, Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. Hist., x. p. 257 
(1842); Schl., Mus. Pays. Bas., vii., p. 313 (1876) ; Milne- 
Edwards et Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag., Mamm., Atlas, 
pls: 156-161, 165,-166. 
Lemur chrysampyx, Scheurm. Mém. Cour. Acad. Brux., xxii, 
p. 6 (1848 = female). 
Prosimia coronata, Gray, P. Z. S., 1863, p. 138. 
Characters.—Tips of ears naked; tail a little more than the 
length of the body. 
Male.—F ace, nose, and region round the eyes greyish-white ; 
cheeks and forehead rufous or yellowish-red ; a conical spot in 
the centre of the head between the eyes, dark brown or black, 
intruding sometimes on the rufous of the forehead ; ears white ; 
inner side of limbs and under side of body greyish-white ; tail 
rufous at base, the upper side blackish, and the under side 
lighter ; rest of body sienna-grey. 
Female.—Upper side entirely grey, washed with yellowish 
cream-colour on the middle and lower part of the back, and on 
the upper side of the tail; long black hairs present in the tail ; 
the under side entirely silvery-grey ; fur at base black, the tips 
grey or silvery ; instead of the black spot on the forehead there 
is a golden yellow-hooped, or widely V-shaped, bar above the 
eyes, narrower in the centre over the nose. 
Albino specimens are sometimes found, which are entirely 
white, except for the golden bar over the eyes. 
