1900.1 



MR. F. E. EEDDARD ON BASSAEICYON A1LENI. 



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The nose is naked, and there is a marked median groove which 

 also cleaves the upper lip. This groove is perfectly visible upon 

 the dorsal surface of the nose, and there are even indications of it 

 on the fur-clad region behind. The nostrils are prolonged into 

 narrow slit-like orifices which are quite visible laterally. 



The palms and soles are quite naked. The claws are not of 

 great length or strength. Neither are they of course retractile. 



There are five or six long vibrissa? forming the whiskers, three 

 or four upon each cheek and two or three under the chin. Further- 

 more, on the arm not far from the hand is a tuft of long and quite 



Fig. 1. 



MamiB of Bassaricyon alleni, illustrating the tuft of vibrissas upon the wrist. 



similar hairs. They appear to agree with a " cluster of long stiff 

 hairs " described as occupying an identical position upon the arm of 

 Lemur caita and of other Lemurs by Mr. Bland Sutton \ Apart, 

 however, from the subject of the present paper, these tufts of long 

 hairs upon the arm are by no means peculiar to the Lemurs, as 

 might be inferred from reading Mr. Sutton's paper. I have seen 

 them on a Malabar Squirrel and upon the arms of several other 



1 " On the Ami-glands of the Lemurs," P. Z. S. 1887, p. 369. 



