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poraneous with the now vanished Dodo and the large flightless 
Rail (Aphanapteryx), both of which were seen alive by Euro- 
peans little more than two centuries ago, and it is not improb- 
able that AZega/adapis may have been living in the Madagascar 
forests at the same period. 
FAMILY LEMURIDZ: (azfed, p. 22). 
In this family, and in its sub-family Zemurine (because of 
its affinities with Hlapalemur), has to be included a large extinct 
species from Nossi Vey, in North-west Madagascar. Its fossil 
remains were recently described (P. Z. S., 1893, p. 532), but 
not named by Dr. Forsyth Major. ‘They will prove, he believes, 
when more fully known, to be the type of a new genus. At 
present, however, owing to their incomplete state, it is not 
possible to describe the species fully. “The Lemuroid nature 
of the specimen is at once demonstrated by the great elevation 
and downward bending of the post-orbital processes : 
showing that the osseous ring of the orbit was complete. Un- 
usual for a Lemuroid is the very strong post-orbital constriction 
of the frontals, a character, however, seen in Adaf7s, an Eocene 
European form, and in Hafalemur. With the latter it agrees 
in the voluminous cranial and very short facial portion, and the 
“‘cuttingly sharp” inferior margin of its post-orbital process. 
Seen from the side, this fossil cranium is almost vertically 
truncated behind, as in the skull of A/owatta. The region 
between the eyes is vaulted by underlying air-chambers. 
FAMILY ANAPTOMORPHID%. 
This family includes certain fossil forms of Lower Eocene 
age from the phosphatic deposits of Quercy in France, the 
