LICHANOTUS 163 



Subfamily 4. Indrisinae. 

 GENUS LICHANOTUS. THE AVAHI. 



t 2—2 -, 1—1 „ 2—2 ., 3-3 



I. i=i; C. izs; P. 2=2; M. 3^ = 3°- 



LICHANOTUS Illig., Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 1811, p. 72. Type 



Lemur laniger Gmelin. 

 Avahi Jourd., LTnstit., II, 1834, p. 231. 

 Microrhynchus Jourd., These inaug. Faculte Scien. Grenoble, 1834, 



(nee Megerle, 1823, Coleopt.). 

 Habrocebus Wagn., Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., I, 1840, pp. IX, 257, 



(Part.). 

 Semnocebus Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 207. 

 Iropocus Glog., Hand. u. Hilfsb. Naturg., I, 1841, pp. XXVIII, 



43,44. 



Fur woolly; head almost round; nose not elongate, hairy; face 

 naked ; nostrils opening into a cavity below the skin ; ears small, hidden 

 in fur ; tail longer than body ; third, fourth and fifth fingers flattened ; 

 third and fourth toes united by a membrane up to the first joint. Skull : 

 braincase rounded, rather high ; orbits very large ; upper incisors small, 

 outer ones the larger; canines short; premolars with an outer 

 cingulum, and no interior cusp; molars four cusped. Inner lower 

 incisors more slender than the outer; anterior and posterior molars 

 with five cusps ; palate reaching to middle of last molar ; os centrale of 

 wrist wanting ; fourth finger and toe longest. 



Lichanotus laniger (Gmelin). 



Lemur laniger Gmel., Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 44; Cuv., Tabl. 

 Element. Mamm., 1798, p. 101 ; Shaw, Genl. Zool., I, 1800, 

 p. 99, pi. XXXIV; Fisch., Anat. Maki, 1804, p. 16; Griff., 

 Anim. Kingd., V, 1827, p. 125 ; van d. Hoev., Tijdsch. Natur. 

 Geschied., 1844, p. 27. 



Lemur brunneus Link, Beytr. Natur., 2nd Pt, 1795, p. 165. 



Indris longicaudatus E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Natur. Paris, XIX, 

 1812, p. 158; Desm., Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., XVI, 1817, p. 



