MAMMALIA. 1 5 



Family— LEMURID^B. 



The Crowned Macauco. — Lemur coronatus. 



Plate IV. 

 Lemur coronatus, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1S42, 257. List Mam. Brit. Mus. 16. 



Fur ashy above. Limbs and beneath pale yellowish. Face white, orbits grey. Cheeks and 

 forehead bright rufous, with a large black spot on the crown. Tail thick and blackish. 



Inhab. Madagascar. 



The fur very soft, but shorter and not so woolly as is usual in the genus. 

 The back is rather ashy ; the hair is grey, at the base, darker and nearly black 

 above, with whitish grey ends and minute black tips, which give a black tint to the 

 surface, especially on the rump. The tail is rufous, but the hairs especially those 

 towards the end where they are not worn have a black tip. The limbs are 

 washed with reddish as the back is with black ; the chin, throat, and under part 

 of the body are pale reddish ash. The face, including the orbits and front of the 

 forehead, is white ; the cheeks, from the angles of the mouth, the temples and a 

 broad lunate band on each side of the forehead, is bright reddish, and in the 

 middle of the crown is a broad rather rhombic longitudinal black spot. The 

 whiskers and the bristles in front of the eyes are black. 



In. Lines. 



Length of body and head 1? 



of tail 22 



of hind foot 3 6 



of fore arm and hands 5 6 



The Lemur rujjfrons of Mr. Bennett (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, 106.) agrees with 

 this species in the general distribution of the colours, but differs from it in 

 having the black streak on the head expanded between the eyes, and continued 

 to the end of the nose, and in the under part of the base of the tail being also 

 black. 



Family— VESPERTILIONID^. 

 Tribe — Phyllostomina. 



As several new genera in this tribe have been discovered by the expedition, 

 I am induced to give a connected tabular view of those at present known, to faci- 



