78 LEMURIDE. 
2. Cheirogaleus typicus. B.M. 
Reddish brown ; cheeks, throat, and beneath white ; orbits black- 
ish ; tail cylindrical; fur on outside of ears blackish. 
Cheirogaleus typicus, 4. Smith, S. African Journal, ii.; Gray, Cat. 
Mamm. B. M.p. 17; P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 142. 
Hab, Madagascar. 
Length of foot 2"; length of head about 2", and width about 14”, 
as well as it can be measured on a stuffed specimen. 
3. Cheirogaleus Smithii. B.M. 
Pale bay; chin and beneath pale yellow; outside of ears pale 
brown; orbits blackish; streak on nose and between the orbits 
white; the hairs are slate-colour at the base. 
Cheirogaleus Smithii, Gray, Ann. §& Mag. N. H. 1842, x. p.257; Cat. 
Mamm. B. M. p.16; P. Z. 8.1863, a 143." Microcebus pusillus, 
Waterhouse, Cat. Mus. Z.8. ed. 2. p. 12. no, 89. Le Rat de Mada- 
gascar, Buffon, Supp. iii. t. 20 P 
Hab. Madagascar. 
Length of hind foot 1” 2'”. 
This specimen is about one-fourth the size of OC. typicus. It 
may be the young of it; but the teeth, so far as one can see in a 
stuffed specimen, appear to be perfect. 
There is a specimen in spirits in the British Museum, from the 
Zoological Society, that was named Microcebus pusillus by Mr. 
Waterhouse in the second edition of the Catalogue of the Museum 
of that Society, which agrees with this animal in almost all particu- 
lars; but the ears appear larger and bald, and the fur of the under 
part of the body whiter—perhaps both particulars arising from its 
having been preserved in spirits. The length of the feet and the 
teeth agree; but the feet and, especially, the hands are white and 
hairy, while in the dry specimen they are brown and nearly without 
hair. 
It is sad to observe the persistence with which an error may be 
endowed. Vigors and Horsfield, in the ‘Zoological Journal’ in 
1828, described an American Douroucouli as a Lemur, under the 
name of Cheirogaleus Commersonit, believing that it came from Ma- 
dagascar. This error was soon corrected; but Lesson retains it 
among the Lemuridew, dnd renamed it Glicebus rufus; Schinz, in 
his « Systematic Catalogue,’ published in 1844, still retains it, and 
calls it Scartes rufus (vol. i. p. 102); and Giebel, ‘ Die Siugethiere,’ 
published in 1859, p. 1018, still regards it as a Cheirogaleus. 
Le Rat de Madagascar (Buffon, Supp. iii. t. 20) well represents 
this animal; but it has been considered the type of the genus 
Microcebus, which i is described as having a long slender foot. 
The following generic and specific names have been applied to this 
animal :— 
mee Geoff. 1828. Myscebus, Lesson, 1840. Myocebus, Schinz, 
1844. 
