118 LEPIDOLEMUR 



Lepidolemur grandddieri Major. 



Lepidolemur grandidieri F. Major, in Forbes Handb. Primates, I, 

 1894, p. 89; Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1901, p. 259, fig. 67. 



Lepilemur ( !) mustelinus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 

 144, (nee I. Geoff.). 



GRANDIDIER'S SPORTIVE LEMUR. 



Type locality. North west Madagascar, locality not given. 



Type not in British Museum. 



Geogr. Dist. North west Madagascar. 



Genl. Char. "Skull remarkable for the large size of its orbits, and 

 for the anterior convergence of its upper dental cheek-series being 

 greater than in the other members of the group." 



Color. "General color cinnamon ; head grayish ; an indistinct 

 median dorsal streak from the forehead along the back ; inner side of 

 the limbs and under side of the body yellowish gray." Ex Forbes 

 (1. c). 



Measurements. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 49; Hensel, 42; zy- 

 gomatic width, 32; intertemporal width, 19; palatal length, 19; breadth 

 of braincase, 24; median length of nasals, 11 ; width of palate between 

 last molar, 10 ; length of mandible, 35 ; length of lower tooth row, 20 ; 

 length of upper tooth row, 19. Ex type British Museum. 



I have not seen this species as the unique type could not be found 

 in the British Museum. The skull however was in the collection and 

 the measurements were taken from it. 



Lepidolemub leucopus Major. 



Lepidolemur leucopus F. Major, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1894, 

 p. 211 ; Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 89, pi. IX. 



WHITE-FOOTED SPORTIVE LEMUR. 



Type locality. Fort Dauphin, south east Madagascar. Type in 

 British Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Southeastern Madagascar. Type locality only. 



GenL Char. Ears large; tail shorter than the body. Skull long 

 and broad; mastoid region greatly inflated; palate long; tooth row 

 short ; molars small, slender. 



Color. Male. Nose pale gray ; head iron gray with a dark brown 

 median stripe; neck, shoulders, and outer side of arms pale rufous; 

 upper rump pale cream buff ; rest of upper parts and outer side of legs 

 chinchilla gray ; a dark brown stripe from neck to rump ; spot under the 

 ear rufous, cheeks gray tinged with rufous ; chin white ; rest of under 



