LEMUR 145 



Color. Male. A black or blackish brown spot on center of head, 

 sometimes only a stripe, in some specimens occupying nearly all the 

 space between the ears; orbital rings black; face and nose grayish 

 white; ears white; cheeks and forehead rufous; upper part of body 

 dark sienna gray; outer side of limbs, and under side of body pale 

 rufous; tail rufous on basal half, remainder blackish to tip, beneath 

 much paler, but becoming blackish at tip ; hands and feet pale rufous 

 like outside of limbs. Ex type British Museum. 



Female. Resembles the male but washed with rufous on the back ; 

 forehead and face gray ; between eyes and side of nose, ears and stripe 

 in front of ears, white; under parts yellowish white; tail dark gray 

 for entire length, as are also the limbs ; the rufous band on top of the 

 head extends downwards on sides of head in front of ears ; hands and 

 feet grayish white ; tail iron gray. 



Measurements. Skull : total length, 81 ; occipito-nasal length, 76 ; 

 Hensel, 62; intertemporal width, 27; zygomatic width, 49; median 

 length of nasals, 21 ; length of upper molar series, 26; length of man- 

 dible, 54 ; length of lower molar series, 24. 



Lemur nigrifrons E. Geoffroy. 



Lemur nigrifrons (nee Linn.), E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 



Paris, XIX, 1812, p. 260 ; Id. Cours Hist. Nat. Mamm, 1828, 



p. 19, lime Legon; F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., II, 1824, 



Livr. XXX, pi. XVIII ; I. Geoff., Cat. Primates, 1851, p. 73 ; 



Gerv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., I, 1854, p. 168, figs. ; Dahlb., Stud. 



Zool. Fam. Reg. Anim. Nat., fasc. I, 1856, pp. 215, 219; 



Fitzing., Sitzungsb. Metth. Natur. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1870, 



p. 73 ; A. Milne-Edw. et Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag., Atlas, 



II, 1890, pis. CXXXVII, CXLIII. 

 Prosimia ocularis Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 231. 

 Prosimia anjuanensis (nee Geoff.), Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1863, p. 139; 1872, p. 862; Gunth., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ill, 



1879, 5th Ser., p. 216. 

 Prosimia nigrifrons Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating 



Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 73 ; Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 



p. 850; Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 768. 

 Lemur mayottensis Schleg., Ned. Tijdsch. Dierk., 1866, p. 76; 



Schleg. et Pollen, Faun. Madag., 1868, p. 3, pi. II ; Schleg., 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Simise, 1876, p. 308. 



BLACK-FRONTED LEMUR. 



Type locality. Island of Madagascar. 



