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limited to one locality, and this is on account of the limited number of 

 examples procured, as all the species obtained by Forsyth-Major save 

 one, L. microdon, were represented by only one specimen. The dis- 

 tribution of these, therefore, is still to be ascertained. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Size small. 



a. Feet not white. 



a.' "Tail drab color" L. globiceps. 



b.' "General color cinnamon" L. grandidieri. 



b. Feet white L. leucopus. 



B. Size large. 



a. Upper parts chestnut or grayish red. 



a.' Without stripe on side of neck L. mustelinus. 



b! With stripe on side of neck L. microdon. 



b. Upper parts reddish brown or reddish gray. 



a! No dorsal line L. ruficaudatus. 



b! Dorsal line conspicuous from forehead. L. edwardsi. 



Not having seen a specimen of either L. globiceps or L. gran- 

 didieri, I am obliged to take such distinctive characters as I could find 

 in the brief and unsatisfactory descriptions given of these species by 

 Forbes, (1. c). 



Lepidolemue globiceps Major. 



Lepidolemur globiceps Forsyth-Major, in Forbes Handbook of 

 Primates, I, 1894, p. 89. 



"Char. The smallest of the Sportive Lemurs. Similar to Lepi- 

 dolemur ruficaudatus, but less ruf ous down the fore limbs ; the tail 

 drab color." 



"Skull very characteristic ; the braincase broad, high, and globose, 

 the facial region short ; the premaxillae more reduced than in any other 

 species; the external auditory channel very large; the occipital region 

 less vertical than in the species of Section A. Distribution, Ambulisatra, 

 southwest Madagascar." 



I have not seen this species, as the type, the only known example, 

 could not be found in the British Museum. The extract quoted above 

 is all that is known of the animal. 



