MAMMALIA. 



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red Phosphorites of southern France, are shown in Pier- Pier-case 3. 



case 3. There are also jaws of the same animals from the 



Upper Eocene of Hordwell, Hampshire (Fig. 2), and teeth 



of allied genera from the 



Eocene of Dakota, U.S.A. 



At the present day the lemurs 



are confined to Madagascar, 



parts of Africa and the 



southern Asiatic region. They 



are especially characteristic of 



jMadagascar, and are all small 



animals adapted exclusively Fig- 2.— Palatal view of left upper 



for a life in trees. In the teeth oi^ l^enrnv (Adapis magna) 



p , . , from Upper Eocene, Hordwell, 



surface deposits and caverns ot Hampshire ; nat.size. (Pier-case 3.) 



Madagascar their fossil remains 



are numerous, and among these it is easy to recognise large 

 and even gigantic extinct kinds {Nesopithccus, Megaladapis, 

 etc.) which lived in the Pleistocene and Prehistoric periods. 



Fig. 3.— IModel of skull and lower jaw of a supposed ariuatic Lemur 

 [Megaladains insignis), from a Cavern in Madagascar; one quarter 

 nat. size. (Pier-case 3.) 



The largest species of Megaladapis {M. insignis), of which 

 various Iracrments are exhiliited and of which a rest(jred 



