18/1.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON EUPLERES AND GALIDIA. 297 



the adult animal originally described and figured. The hinder 

 costal shield and the last vertebral one are small compared with the 

 rest, and are about equal in size. 



The other adult specimen has an entirely different external ap- 

 pearance from the typical specimen, so much so that one would 

 hardly believe that it belonged to the genus Rhinoclemmys, which is 

 usually so uniformly coloured and generally so smooth. It is of a 

 pale brownish yellow above and below, being only rather darker on 

 the sutures between the marginal and dorsal shields, between the 

 sternal shields and the marginal shields. The dorsal and marginal 

 shields are deeply concentrically grooved, and marked with elevated 

 ridges radiating from the angles of the areola ; the lower shields 

 are similar, but not so uniformly grooved. "When the dorsal shields 

 are very closely examined they are found to be variegated with nu- 

 merous dark-brown dots leaving indications of concentric rings ; and 

 these spots are more abundant in the areola, which is marked with 

 a distinct yellow streak or oblong spot surrounded by a dark edge. 

 The two hinder costals are small, regular in their shape, and partly 

 overlap the small irregular last vertebral shield. 



5. Additional Notes on the Genera Eupleres and : &aiidia, 

 and Note on Lemur ruber. By Dr. J. E. Gbat^ F.R.S. 



[Received April 3, 1871.] 



The British Museum has recently received some additional speci- 

 mens of Mammalia from Madagascar, collected by Mr. Crossley, 

 who was sent out for the purpose by Mr. Ward of Halifax. Among 

 the animals received is a skin, in a more perfect state, of Eupleres 

 goudoti, and two skeletons of the same, which I hope to induce Mr. 

 Flower or some other osteologist to describe in detail. 



The skin shows that the acute nose of Eupleres has a distinct but 

 narrow central groove, and that it must be referred to the family 

 Yiverridce, and will form, in the first section of that family with hairy 

 soles to the feet, a peculiar tribe called Euplerina, characterized by 

 the form of the skull. 



In the same collection are adults of Galidia elegans and G. con- 

 color, which are easily distinguished by having a naked band ex- 

 tending on the sole of the hinder feet. The nose of this genus is 

 rather produced beyond the teeth, and has a distinct groove beneath. 

 The claws of Galidia and Eupleres are arched, compressed, and 

 acute, and partly retractile, but are evidently always raised from the 

 ground, so as to be kept in this acute state. 



In the collection there was also a series of specimens of Varecia 

 rubra, Gray, Cat, Monkeys & Lemurs British Museum, p. 71. All 

 the specimens had the head, the tail, and the fore feet, and the un- 

 derside of the body and four legs, intense uniform black, the back 

 of the neck and a spot on the upperside at the base of the tail pure 



