158 LEMUR 



BLACK LEMUR. 



Type locality. Unknown. Type in Paris Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. North western Madagascar, Cape Ambre to Ifassy. 



Genl. Char. Face hairy, except nose pad and lips, which are 

 naked ; ears naked. Iris "greenish blue." (A. Milne-Edwards in Litt.) . 



Color. Male. Face black; head, neck, fore part of body from 

 middle of back, and arms black glossed with maroon; rest of body 

 above, hind limbs, and feet, maroon ; hands black ; under parts of body 

 reddish brown; inner side of limbs maroon; tail black tinged with 

 reddish beneath ; iris green. Ex type in Paris Museum. 



Measurements. Skull : occipito-nasal length, 85 ; Hensel, 77 ; zygo- 

 matic width, 53 ; intertemporal width, 32 ; width of braincase, 37 ; 

 palatal length, 39.5 ; median length of nasals, about 24 ; length of upper 

 molar series, 26 ; length of mandible, 64 ; length of lower molar series, 34. 



The type of this form was purchased by the Paris Museum from 

 the Zoological Society of London, the skull, however, is in the British 

 Museum. It is a large animal, and may possibly be a melanism of L. 

 rufus or L. fulvus, or a male of some species of the L. macaco style. 

 The fact that nothing is known of its habitat, or whence the specimen 

 came, makes it difficult to form an opinion upon its specific value, and 

 we are therefore compelled, for the present, to keep it separate from 

 the other species of the genus. 



Lemur catta Linnseus. 



Lemur catta Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1758, p. 30; I, 1766, p. 45; 

 Schreb., Saugth., I, 1775, p. 143, tab. XXI ; Erxl., Syst. Reg. 

 Anim., 1777, p. 68 ; Gmel., Syst. Nat., 1788, p. 43, No. 4 ; Shaw, 

 Genl. Zool., 1800, p. 103, pi. XXXV; Fisch., Anat. Maki. 1804, 

 p. 17 ; Less., Man. Mamm., 1827, p. 66 ; E. Geoff., Cours Hist. 

 Nat. Mamm., 1828, p. 18, lime Leqon; Wagn., Schreb., 

 Saugth. Suppl., I, 1840, p. 266; V, 1855, p. 142; van der 

 Hoeven, Tijdsch. Natur. Geschied., XI, 1844, p. 32 ; I. Geoff., 

 Cat. Primates, 1851, p. 70; Gerv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., I, 1854, 

 p. 165 ; Dahlb., Stud. Zool. Fam. Reg. Anim. Nat., fasc. I, 

 1856, pp. 214, 215; Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit- 

 eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 72 ; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 Simiae, 1876, p. 314; G. A. Shaw, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 

 p. 132; Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 768; Anders., 

 Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. Calc, 1881, Pt. I, p. 90; Bedd., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 371, fig. 3; 1900, pp. 135, 160; A. 

 Milne-Edw. et Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag. Mamm., Atlas, 



