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MR. ST. G. MIVART ON THE LEMI'RS. 



[May 20, 



twelve) examined by him. He also tells me that the so-called lower 

 canine is really an incisor, and that canines below are wanting in the 

 adult. 



"Chez les jeunes Indrisines la canine inferieure existe, mais elle 

 tombe et n'est jamais remplacee. II y a aussi 3 premolaires infe'- 

 rieures dont 2 seulement sont remplacees, de facnn que, pour la 

 machoire inferieure la dentition de lait ressemble tout-a-fait a celle 

 des Lemures, I. 2, C. 1, Prem. 3, M. 3." 



The Indrisince form an exceedingly natural group ; and it is satis- 

 factory to note that Dr. Gray (in his ' Catalogue of Monkeys and 

 Lemurs,' 1870, p. 89) has removed I. laniger from the vicinity of 

 Galago and placed it next to the other species, though he still re- 

 tains it in a tribe distinct from them, termed Microrhynchina. 



Turning now to the next notable addition to the national collection, 

 the skeleton of Lepilemur, I find that the skull agrees as to its 

 characters with the specimen in the Jardin des Plantes, before de- 

 scribed by me*. 



Fig. 1. 



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r>orsnl aspect of skull of Lepilemur miistelinvs 



■- : P. Z. S. 18G7, p. 90S. 



