1S99.] DR. C. I. FORSYTH MAJOR 0>' " PROSIMIA RUFIPES." 553 



2. Genetta tigrina (Schreb.). 



3. Herpestes sp. inc. 



A flat native skin witiiout skull oblained by Mr. J. B. Yule at 

 Karonga, 13.7.98. 



4. Mellivora ratel (Sparrm.). 



5. Sciurus cepapi A. Smith. 



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

 p. 933. 



6. Procavia arborea (A. Smith). 



'New to tbis locality, and only previously known from South 

 Africa. 



7. Cephcdophus lugens Thomas, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 393. 



The type of this species is of a unifoi'm 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. Foi'syth Major exhibited specimens of a Lemur froni 

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

 remarks : — 



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

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

 species {L. Uucomystax Bartl.), is red. In 1880 the Secretary of 

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

 Society's Gardens on Nov. 25th, 1878, and which was at first 

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

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

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

 some knoAvn species." I'igures are given of the heads of both 

 species. L. nigerrimus 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-conch is naked, and not furnished with 

 tufts of hair as in Lemur macaco " ^ 



At the meeting of this Society on February 28th, 1893, an 

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

 was read, in which it is stated that the female of L. nigerrirnvs is 

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

 in 1871 under the name of Prosimia rujipcs. Prof. ^lilne-Edwards 

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

 female is characteristic, the ii"is being greenish blue (" d\m bleu 

 iirant siir le vert'") : also that the species comes from Cape Ambra, 

 in the far north of Madagascar '". 



Gray's description of '•^ Proaimia rufipes'' was based on a male 

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

 the Natural History Museum. Both are rufous-brown abo\e, the 



P.Z.S. 18S0, p. 451. figs. 1, 2. 

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



