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Adult. — Head and neck black. Face, snout, and ears naked, 

 and of a blackish colour, encircled by a broad band of long 

 white hairs, joining under the throat, slightly mixed with darker 

 hairs. Rest of fur, including the tail, white on the upper sur- 

 face ; back and upper rump dark brown. The large white 

 patch on and between the shoulders much grizzled with brown 

 hairs. Under side of hind-limbs, to just below the knees, 

 blackish brown. Inside of hind-limbs down to the heel also 

 brown, joining the colour of the upper surface, thus forming a 

 continuous dark stri^^e along the legs. Inner and upper sur- 

 face of arms, thumb, and two following fingers, deep blackish- 

 brown ; throat, chest, and greater part of abdomen, deep 

 brown. Size perceptibly larger than that of Fropitliecus ver- 

 reajixi\ with the tail longer. 



This species of Propitliecus is nearest to the typical P. 

 verreanxi of Grandidier, which is white, with the top of the 

 head black, and the lower back and rump greyish-brown, but 

 is no doubt an entirely different species. {Rothschild, I.e.) 



Distribution. — Antiiuoi) couiitry, S.W. Madagascar. 



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