1908.] 



AYE- A YE AND OTHER LEMURS. 



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limited tract of the other. In my recent memoir upon the 

 intestine in several mammals *, I have referred to more than one 

 species in which the attachment of the omentura to the large 

 intestine is of the same limited extent as in Chiromys. But it is 

 greater in the genus Lemttr (see text-fig. 151) t. I may take this 

 opportunity of remarking that the attachment of the omentum. 



Text-fig. 151. 



A portion of the intestinal tract of Lemur riijifrons corresponding to that of 

 Chiromys as displayed in text-fig;. 150. 



Lettering as in text-fig. 150. 



to the colon in Hapale jyenicillata is hardly if at all greater than 

 in Chiro'mys. I find myself therefore in disagreement with 

 Klaatsch, who represents a more leng-thy base of insertion of the 

 omentum upon the colon (in Hapale alhicollis). 



* " On the Anatomy of Antecldnomys, &c.," P. Z. S. 1908, p. 561. 

 f At any rate in i. alhifrons and L. rufifrons, where it is attached all over the colic- 

 loop, and in JC, brtmneus, in which species it is attached to halfwaj^ down the loop. 



