THE SPORTIVE-LEMURS. 87 
Lepilemur paliidicauda, Gray, P. Z. S., 1872, p: 850. 
Lepilemur mustelinus (nec. Is. Geoffr.), Schl., Mus. P. B., vii, 
Pp. 317 (impart). 
Characters.—Smaller than the last species; head much 
broader than it is long; snout short and conical ; ears ovate, 
exposed, short-haired ; tail long, thicker at the end, and covered 
with softer and longer hairs. Fur pale or reddish-grey ; head 
dark brown ; the shoulders and outer side of the arms grey, 
washed with brown; chin, breast, and inner side of limbs and 
under side of body whitish ; upper side of the base of the tail 
rather dark brown, this colour extending further down in the 
tail of the female; rest of the tail uniform pale brownish or 
greyish-red. 
Skull very broad compared with its length, more massive, 
and showing a shorter muzzle than in Z. musfelinus ; orbits 
smaller than in any of the other species in Group A. 
Distribution.—South- western Madagascar. 
Ill. MILN E-EDWARDS’ SPORTIVE-LEMUR. LEPIDOLEMUR 
EDWARDSI. 
Lepidolemur edwardst, Forsyth Major.* 
Characters.—“‘ Similar to LZ. ruficaudalus ; upper part of head 
grey; ears nembranaceous, but encircled on ‘the inner and pos- 
terior side by an incomplete belt of dark brown colour, which 
distinguishes the species from Z. ruficaudatus ; shoulders and 
outer side of the fore-limbs reddish-brown. Back greyish-brown, 
lighter on the outer side of the hind-limbs ; an uninterrupted 
dark dorsal streak from the middle of the back to the centre of 
* N.B.—These descriptions of new species have been kindly supplied by 
Dr. Forsyth Major from his MSS., and I am much indebted to him for 
allowing them to be first published in the present work. 
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