go ALLEN’S NATURALIST’S LIBRARY. 
Characters.—Ears large, long, membranaceous ; tail shorter 
than the body. Upper side Chinchilla-grey, with an indistinct 
median brownish stripe from the neck to the root of the tail. 
Top of head brownish-grey, with a darker median stripe ; 
cheeks and chin whitish. Ears encircled by a broad ring of 
whitish hair. Neck, shoulders, and upper parts of the fore- 
arm pale rufous. Breast and belly greyish-white ; inner sur- 
faces of the hind-limbs and the heels pure white.* Tail 
greyish, with a rusty tinge. Length, 12 inches; tail, 10% 
inches. 
The skull is longer and broader than that of ZL. grandt- 
diert , the mastoidal portion of the ear-capsules and the ad- 
jacent squamosal region very largely inflated ; bony palate 
elongated ; dental cheek-series short; molar teeth small and 
slender, distinguishing this species from ZL. granditert, their 
small size also separating it from L. glodbiceps. 
Distribution. This species is at present known only from Fort 
Dauphin in the south-east of Madagascar. [Type in British 
Museum. | 
THE ENDRINAS. SUB-FAMILY INDRISINA. 
This, the last sub-family of the Zesuwride, is considered to 
contain the highest members of the whole Sub-order. ‘They are 
distinguished by having their fur abundant, longer and woolly 
above, shorter beneath, with the hands and feet haired to the 
tips of the digits. Their head, set at right angles to the spinal 
column, is rounded, the face elongated and naked, with a deep 
furrow separating the nostrils. The eyes are large, and havea 
third eyelid, or nictitating membrane, to draw across the pupil 
during the day. The ears, which are naked inside and fringed 
* N,B.—The white feet should have been more pronounced in the plate. 
