82 HEMIGALAGO 



GENUS 4. HEMIGALAGO. BUSH BABYS 



12 — 2 f-^ 1 — 1 |-» o — 3 m »■ 3 — 3 {■ 



• 2^' ^" I^I' "• iPS' M- 3—3 3°- 



First upper premolar unlike canine ; premaxillae extending in front 

 of incisors ; muzzle short ; angle of mandible produced downwards and 

 backwards; tarsi very long; species small in size. Second upper 

 premolar with cusp on the heel. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. 



A. Second upper premolar with cusp on heel. 



a. Upper parts Prout's brown H. demidoffi. 



b. Upper parts mars brown H. d. poensis. 



c. Upper parts rufous washed with yellow H. anomurus. 



d. Upper parts drab washed with mars brown H. thomasi. 



*Hemigalago demidoffi (Fischer). 



Galago demidoffi Fisch., Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, I, 1806, 



p. 1, pi. XXIV, fig. 1, Juv.; Id. Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 68; I. 



Geoff., Cat. Primates, 1851, p. 81 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1863, p. 148; Peters, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 



380, pi. XXV; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 248, 



fig.; Thos., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 5, (Mombuttu) ; 



Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 44; Pousarg., Ann. 



Scien. Nat., Paris, III, 7me Ser., 1896, p. 242. 

 Mioxicebus rufus Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 219. 

 Microcebus rufus Schinz, Syn. Mamm., I, 1844, p. 107. 

 Otolicnus peli Temm., Esquis. Zool., 1853, p. 42; Fitzing., Sit- 



zungsb. Metth. Naturw. Akad. Wissensth. Wien, 1870, p. 746. 

 Otolicnus demidoffi Wagn., Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., I, 1840, p. 



292, (footnote) ; V, 1855, p. 165; Fitzing., Sitzungsb. Metth. 



Naturw. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, 1870, p. 748. 

 Hemigalago demidoffi Dahlb., Stud. Zool. Fam. Reg. Anim. 



*For Geographical Distribution see Galago, p. 52. 



