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2. Genetta tigrina (Schreb.). 



3. Herpestes sp. inc. 



A fiat native skin without skull oblainecl b\' Mr. J. B. Tale at 

 Karonga, 13.7.98. 



4. Mellivora ratel (Sparrm.). 



5. iSciurus cepapi A. Smith. 



Two specimens. Cf. Tunisciurus cepapi, Thomas, P. Z. S. 1897, 

 p. 933. 



6. Promvia arborea (A. Smith). 



Xew to this locality, and only previously kuo\^■Il from South 

 Africa. 



7. CephalopTius lugeiis Thomas, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 393. 



The t3"pe of this species is of a uniform soot-colour. In the 

 present specimen (which is marked male) the legs and a stripe on 

 each side of the face are slightly reddish. The type was a female ; 

 so the difference in colour may be sexual. 



Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major exhibited specimens of a Lemur from 

 Madagascar, " Prosimia riifipes " of Gray, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



It is well known that the male of Lemur macaco L. is black, and 

 that the female, which was at one time regarded as a distinct 

 species (L. leucomystax Bartl. ), is red. In 1880 the Secretary of 

 this Society pointed out that a black Lemur, received at the 

 Society's Gardens on Xov. 25th, 1878, and wliich was at first 

 determined as L. macaco, proved to be distinct, and accordinglv 

 the name L. nigerrimvs was proposed for the former, with the 

 reservation that " it maj" possibly turn out to be a black variety of 

 some known species." Figures are given of the heads of both 

 species. L. nir/ercimus is said to be " a larger and more intensely 

 black animal, with a raised crest of short upstanding hair on its 

 head. Moreover, the ear-couch is naked, and not furnished with 

 tufts of hair as in Lemur macaco " i. 



At the meeting of this Society oti February 28th, LS93, an 

 extract from a letter from Prof. A. Milne-Edwai-ds to the Secretary 

 was read, in which it is stated that the female of Z. nic/errim ax is 

 rufous-brown (" hrune"), and that it had been described by Gray 

 in 1871 under the name of Prosimia ru^pcs. Prof. ]\lilne-Edwards 

 further states that the colour of the eyes of L. nigerrimiis and its 

 female is characteristic, the iris being greenish blue {^'cl'imhleu 

 tirant sitr le vert") ; also that the species comes from Cape Ambra, 

 in the far north of Madagascar ". 



Gray's description of " Prosimia riijtpjes *' was based on a male 

 and a female specimen, which are exhibited in the Gallery of 

 the Nahiral History Museum. Both are rufous-brown abo^e, the 



1, -'. 



1 P.Z.S. 1880, p. 451, figs. 1, 

 - P.Z.S. 1893, pp. 177, 178. 



