LEMUR 151 



Prosimia rufifrons Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 230; Gray, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 138 ; 1872, p. 852 ; Id. Cat. Monkeys, 



Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 74; Id. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., VII, 4th Ser., 1871, p. 339. 

 Lemur mongos var. ruiifrons A. Milne-Edw. et Grandid., Hist. 



Nat. Madag., Mamm., Atl., II, 1890, pis. CXXXVIII, 



CXXXIX, CXLIV. 

 Lemur mongos ruiifrons Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. Mus., 



VIII, 1906, p. 544, Zool. Ser. 



RED-FRONTED LEMUR. 



Type locality. Unknown. Type specimen then living in the 

 garden of the Zoological Society. 



Geogr. Distr. West coast of Madagascar from Cape St. Vincent 

 on the south to Baly on the north. 



Genl. Char. Male with top of head between ears rufous ; that of 

 female grizzly black. 



Color. Male. Top of head between ears and patch beneath ears 

 deep rufous; center of forehead and nose black; spots above and in 

 front of eyes, and cheeks, whitish ; outer side of limbs, hands and feet, 

 and under part of body pale rufous ; upper part of body grizzled gray 

 washed with rufous ; hands light brown ; feet dark brown ; tail blackish 

 on apical half, then rufous, brightest and deepest towards root, and 

 blackish at root. Ex type in British Museum. 



Female. Top of head grizzled ; patch around eyes grayish white ; 

 upper part of body and outer side of limbs grizzly brown ; under side 

 of limbs, and body beneath pale rufous ; deeper along sides of abdomen 

 and at vent. 



Measurements. Skull : total length, 87.3 ; occipito-nasal length, 85 ; 

 intertemporal width, 31.6; zygomatic width, 47.7; median length of 

 nasals, 25.9; length of upper molar series, 28.6; length of mandible, 

 60 ; length of lower molar series, 32.3. 



Lemur rtjbriventer I. Geoffroy. 



Lemur rubriventer I. Geoff., Compt. Rend., XXXI, 1850, p. 876 ; 

 Id. Cat. Primates, 1851, p. 71 ; Wagn., Schreb., Saugth. 

 Suppl., V, 1855, p. 142; Dahlb., Stud. Zool. Fam. Reg. Anim. 

 Natur., Fasc. I, 1856, pp. 214, 218 ; Schleg., Neder. Tijdsch. 

 Dierk., Ill, 1866, p. 75 ; Id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 

 311; Fitzing., Sitzungsb. Metth. Natur. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 1870, p. 638; Milne-Edw. et Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag., 

 1890, Atl., II, pis. CLXVIII, CLXX ; Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



