10 MESSRS. MURIE AND MIVART ON THE 
basis of the fingers, and two larger towards the root of the wrist. The last two we may 
suppose to correspond to nos. 1 and 5, 5* of Lemur. 
Fig. 5. Fig. 6. 
Fig. 5. Palmar surface of hand of Lemur niger: nat. size. Fig. 6. Plantar aspect of foot of the same. 
In Nycticebus tardigradus (fig. 9, p. 11) the conditions presented are the same as 
those in Galago, except that two small pads placed side by side (nos. 3 and 3*) take the 
place of that single pad which in Lemur and Galago is located between the roots of the 
third and fourth digits. 
In Tarsius there is a single large oval pollicial pad; and Burmeister ' further mentions 
that between the roots of the middle and other digits there are two very high round ones; 
and opposite the ball of the thumb, towards the outer border of the palm, there is a long 
figure-of-eight-shaped palmar cushion, 
Cheiromys* in some respects more nearly approaches Lemur than it does the other 
genera, inasmuch as the pad at the base of the thumb is broad, flat (or very gently 
rounded), and with no marked tendency to duplication. Of the three somewhat smaller 
pads at the proximal ends of the index, annulus, and fifth digits, the middle one (that 
which in Lemur is equidistant between the third and fourth digits) is here in Cheiromys 
almost entirely opposite the annulus, the attenuated middle finger in a measure being . 
excluded from its proper share of the palmar cushion. 
Op. ct, pode * Owen, loc. cit. p. 44; and Peters, ‘ Cheiromys,’ p. 83, tab. i. fig. 2. 
