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two cutting teeth in the lower jaw, and though there 

 are four in the upper one, the two middle ones are large 

 and closely applied one against the other. 



The last lemuroid to be here noticed is a still 



Fig. gi. 



more exceptional one. It is called the aye-aye, and is 

 found nowhere but in Madagascar. There it was dis- 

 covered by Soumerat in 1780, and was described in 

 Buffon's " Natural History " from a skin which Sonnerat 



