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L. flaviventer, Lesson (Rev. Zool. &c, 1851, p. 24). In this case, 

 however, the remarkable colouring of the face is unnoticed by its de- 

 scribes The face and between the eyes are black ; but the broad bilobate 

 band above the eyes of L. nigrifrons, is in the present species grizzled 

 with fulvous-white, vaguely divided by blackish along the middle, and the 

 latter continued as a more distinct black line from the vertex to the occi- 

 put ; the periphery also of the greyish frontal band is dusky-black. Fur 

 more dense and frizzled than in L. nigrifrons, especially upon the 

 head : of a nearly uniform dull grizzled fulvous-brown on the upper-parts, 

 limbs, and tail; palest en the limbs, but darker towards the anterior 

 hands, and the digits light fulvescent : below dull fulvescent-white, 

 purer white on the chin and throat, and passing to deeper fulvous towards 

 the tail, and likewise on the fore-limbs towards the palms ; some pale 

 colour also on the cheeks, and the fur upon the ears ; and the moustachial 

 bristles black. Size rather exceeding that of L. nigrifrons and L. albi- 



FRONS.* 



A species of Paradoxurtjs would seem to be P. laniger, Hodgson ; 

 but with the woolly fur much shorter (as produced in confinement), only 

 \ in. long upon the body, and Lemurine or Bat-like in character, close 

 and frizzled : but the relative proportions of the tail and body do not 

 agree, this having the tail about equalling in length the head and body; 

 whereas in P. laniger it is described to be " barely more than a third 

 of the entire dimensions." The prevailing colour of the fur is a maronne- 

 brown, grizzled with hoary tips ; darker on the head, occiput, cheeks 

 and ears ; and a narrow median white line along the nose : paws also 

 darker, especially those of the hind-feet, and the terminal third or more 

 of the tail : lower-parts whitish, passing up the sides of the neck so as 

 almost to form a collar : the whiskers long and black : ears naked within, 

 and nearly so for the terminal half externally : no dark lines along the 

 back; but a vague appearance of a broadish fulvous streak along the 

 middle of the back. Length about 32 in., of which the tail is half (or 

 very nearly so) : head 4 in. ; and hind-feet from heel, 2| in. 



Here may likewise be noticed — 



P. leucotis, nobis (Horsfield's Catalogue). Length about 3 ft., of 



* We have now the following species of this genus : 



1. L. macaco, L. : the Ruffed Lemur. 



2. L. Catta, L. The Ring-tailed Lemur. 



3. L. Niger, L. The Black Lemur. 



4. L. albifeons, Geoffroy. The White-fronted Lemur. 



5. L. nigrifrons, Geoffroy. The Black-fronted Lemur, with skeleton. 



6. L. flaviventer (?), Lesson. The Grey-fronted Lemur. 



