98 MICROCEBUS 



GENUS MICROCEBUS. DWARF LEMURS. 



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MICROCEBUS E. Geoff., Cours Hist. Nat. Mamra, lime Legon, 

 1828, p. 24. Type Lemur pusillus E. Geoffroy, = Lemur 

 murinus Miller. 



Scartes Swains., Nat. Hist, and Class. Quad., 1835, p. 352. 



Gliscebus Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 207. 



Mirza Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, British 

 Museum, 1870, p. 131. 



Phaner Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit- 

 ish Museum, 1870, p. 131. 



Azema Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, British 

 Museum, 1870, p. 132. 



Murilemur Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, 

 British Museum, 1870, p. 133. 



Size small; fore limbs shorter than hind limbs; nose short; eyes 

 large, approximate; ears elongate; mammae four, pectoral two and 

 ventral two. Skull: braincase high; facial region short; squamosal 

 region less inflated than in Galago; inner upper incisor larger than 

 outer; no diastema between upper canine and first premolar; molars 

 with three sharp cusps, basal ring swollen and internally forming a 

 hind cusp; last upper molar smaller than the first with rudimentary 

 hind cusp ; palate extends behind last molar. 



LITERATURE OF THE SPECIES. 



1777. /. F. Miller, Cimelia Physica. 



Microcebus murinus first described as Lemur murinus. 

 1784. Boddcert, Elenchus Animalium. 



In this work Microcebus murinus is placed in the genus 



Prosimia as P. minima. 

 1788. /. F. Gmelin, Sy sterna Nature? . 



Microcebus murinus is here recognized under Miller's name 



of Lemur murinus. 

 1795. E. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, in Bulletin de la SociSte Philomatiquc 



de Paris. 



