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gives Grandidier's short description. Surely there was no reason to 

 confer upon the hapless animal a new name. Gray's description of 

 the male is short and he gives none of the female, merely making a 

 slight reference to the color of the tail. The following description is 

 taken from this female. Head gray, hairs tipped with black; back 

 grayish washed with brown ; a reddish brown (not very distinct) , stripe 

 on middle of back ; rump buff or pale fawn ; shoulders and arms red- 

 dish brown ; outer side of legs pale gray ; entire under parts and inner 

 side of limbs yellowish white ; hands rufous, feet gray ; tail above dark 

 brown, beneath basal half yellowish white, remainder pale cinnamon. 



Measurements of the male's skull are as follows. Occipito-nasal 

 length, 56 ; Hensel, 45 ; zygomatic width, 37 ; intertemporal width, 17 ; 

 palatal length, 21 ; width of braincase, 27 ; median length of nasals, 

 14; length of upper molar series, 21 ; length of mandible, 41 ; length of 

 lower molar series, 23. 



It will be seen that there is very little difference in the measure- 

 ments between this skull and that of the male given above. 



Lepidolemub edwabdsi Major. 



Lepidolemur edwardsi F. Major, Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 

 1894, p. 87. 



MILNE-EDWARDS' SPORTIVE LEMUR. 



Type locality. Betseko, north west Madagascar. Type in British 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Northwestern Madagascar. 



Genl. Char. Skull long, narrow; orbits small; mastoid region 

 inflated ; molars and premolars large. 



Color. Head above, and upper part of neck gray, hairs tipped with 

 reddish ; nose reddish ; dark brown stripe behind ears ; back grayish 

 brown, with a reddish brown patch in the center of the back; dark 

 brown streak from center of forehead to middle of back; shoulders 

 and outer side of arms reddish brown ; outer side of legs gray washed 

 with brown ; lower sides of neck, chin, throat, under parts of body and 

 inner side of limbs grayish white ; hands reddish, feet gray ; tail cinna- 

 mon. Ex type British Museum. 



Measurements. Total, length about 660 ; tail, 300. Skull : occipito- 

 nasal length, 55; Hensel, 49; zygomatic breadth, 37; intertemporal 

 width, 19 ; palatal length, 23 ; width of braincase, 25 ; median length of 

 nasals, 15; length of upper molar series, 22; length of mandible, 41; 

 length of lower molar series, 20. Ex type British Museum. 





