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MR. F. E, BEDDARD ON 



[Feb. 18, 



cases the male may be provided with the organ which is wanting 

 in the female. I called the attention of the Society some little 

 time since to the fact that the female of Hapalemur simus ^ has 

 not this tuft, which is very plain and obvious in most Lemurs, 



Text-fi2-. 17, 



Left fore foot of Basypus vUlosiis ; ventral surface. 

 H, tuft of vibrissa;. 



including the male of the closely allied H. griseus. I have, 

 however, met with the structure in too many females of different 

 species of mammals to allow of its being regarded as a sexual 



1 "Notes on the Broad-nosed Lemur, Sapalemiir simus," P. Z, S. 1901, i. p. 121, 



