LEPIDOLEMUR 119 



parts and inner side of limbs yellowish white ; hands rufous gray ; feet 

 white ; tail rusty gray above and below. Ex type British Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, about 540; tail, 265; foot, 57. 

 Skull : occipito-nasal length, 50 ; Hensel, 40 ; zygomatic width, 35 ; 

 intertemporal width, 19; palatal length, 18; width of braincase, 25.5; 

 median length of nasals, 11; length of upper molar series, 12; length 

 of mandible, 34 ; length of lower molar series, 18. 



A rather easily distinguished species and one of the prettiest of 

 the group, its chinchilla coloring and white feet making it quite con- 

 spicuous among its more somber-hued relatives. 



Lepidolemue mtjstelinus I. Geoffroy. 



Lepilemur (!) mustelinus I. Geoff., Cat. Primates, 1851, p. 76; 

 Gray, Pf oc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 244 ; Mivart, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1864, pp. 623-642; 1867, p. 971; 1873, pp. 489, 

 490, figs. 7, 8; Schleg. and Pollen, Faun. Madag. Mamm., 

 1868, p. 10, pis. IV, VI, fig. 3 ; Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs 

 and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, pp. 88, 135 ; Id. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 851 ; Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1873, pp. 486-490, figs. 1-8; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simix, 

 1876, p. 317; Barth., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 768; 

 von Bardeleb., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 86. 

 Galeocebus mustelinus Fitzing., Sitzungsb. Metth. Naturw. Akad. 



Wissensch. Wien, 1870, p. 664. 

 Lepilemur ( !) dorsalis Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit- 

 eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 135. 

 Hapalemur (Lepilemur I) dorsalis Trouess., Cat. Mamm., p. 136. 

 Lepidolemur mustelinus Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 86 ; 

 F. Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1901, pp. 257, 258, figs. 63, 

 64, 65 ; Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. Mus., VIII, 1906, 

 p. 347, Zool. Ser. 

 weasel lemur. Native name "Fitiliki." 



Type locality. Madagascar. Type in Paris Museum. 

 Geogr. Distr. Entire length of east coast of Madagascar from 

 Fort Dauphin to Mt. Ambre. 



Genl. Char. Fur woolly; ears rounded, haired only at base ex- 

 ternally; hairs of tail short; dorsal stripe on type very indistinct. 

 Skull large, heavy; braincase small, rounded; facial region long; 

 orbits very large ; os planum distinct ; molars large ; anterior upper pre- 

 molar not like a canine ; last lower molar with large fifth cusp ; anterior 

 portion of each molar produced forwards, overlapping posterior portion 



