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that coquereli is distinct. With this opinion the present writer 

 agrees, with the exception of myoxinus of which form the 

 material available is not sufficient to prove that it should not 

 be separated from the rest as a distinct species or race. As 

 regards uniting the species of the two genera; the opinion 

 previously expressed by the Author (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1867, p. 965), "that it will be possible and perhaps even useful 

 to retain, provisionally at least, the distinction between Cheiro- 

 galeus ( !) and Microcebus, though reposing mainly if not 

 exclusively on a few cranial and dental characters," may not be 

 disregarded. 



1876. Schlegel, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas, Simla. 

 In this work in the arrangement of the species of Primates, 

 Microcebus furcifer is placed in the genus Phaner, and M. 

 coquereli in Mirza, although Gray had abandoned both four 

 years previously. M. major, called milii, and M. murinus 

 called pusillus, with M. myoxinus (nee Peters), = M. 

 murinus, are placed in the genus Cheirogaleus ( !). 

 The genus Microcebus receives no recognition. 



1894. Forsyth-Major, in Novitates Zoologies. 



This paper is a critical review of the literature and species of 

 Microcebus, Opolemur, and Chirogale. Of Microcebus, the 

 first species is given as M. minor Gray, the murinus Miller 

 being rejected, for the reason that Miller's plate of L. murinus 

 = L. bicolor Gmel., which is not proven. The others are M. 

 myoxinus, and M. smithi = M. murinus Miller. 



1910. Kollmann, M. in Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Paris. 



A paper on the genera Chirogale and Microcebus. The 

 material upon which the Author bases his conclusions is in the 

 Paris Museum, important collections in other National Institu- 

 tions having evidently not been examined. Cheirogale is 

 accepted as a genus and a description of it given, but no species 

 mentioned. Microcebus and Opolemur (Altililemur of this 

 work) , are considered to be the same, and the following species 

 named: Microcebus samati = Altililemur medius (E. 

 Geoff.), M. minor = M. murinus (Miller). The following 

 forms are regarded as subspecies all in Microcebus. M. minor 

 minor = M. murinus (Miller) ; M. minor griseorufus nov. 

 subsp. = M. murinus (Miller), red phase; M. pusillus myoxi- 

 nus = M. myoxinus Peters; M. pusillus minor smithi = M. 



