272 ME. r. E, BEDDARD ON GALAGO GAENETTI. [Mar. 19, 



The patch of spines lies behind the pad lettered 5 in the figure o£ 

 Miirie and Mivart. 



The spines themselves are of a brown colour, paler therefore than 

 the corresponding structures in Hapalemur griseus. The longest 

 of them are quite 10 mm. in lengtli ; and this fact coupled with the 

 relative smallness of the area which they cover renders them rather 

 more conspicuous than in Hapalemur. On the other hand, they 

 might be readily destroyed in the preparation of a skin, and thus 

 have escaped notice at the hands of zoologists. Whether they are 



Text-fig. 71. 



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Galctgo garneUi. 

 Right liincl foot : — I, hallux ; A, patch of horny outgrowths. 



present in other species of the genus as a general rule or not, I am 

 unable to say ; but 1 can at any rate assert that there is no such 

 modification of the skin of the foot of Galago mahoU, the only 

 species which I am at the present moment able to examine in the 

 flesh. The dried skin of G. monteiri shows no traces of these 

 structures, but I do not regard that piece of evidence as so strong. 

 There can be no doubt that in Hapalemur griseus the corre- 

 sponding structures are a permanent and apparently universal 



