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Measurements. Skull : occipito-nasal length, 92 ; Hensel, 81 ; zygo- 

 matic width, 64 ; intertemporal width, 37 ; palatal length, 36 ; width of 

 braincase, 49 ; median length of nasals, 19 ; length of upper molar series, 

 31 ; length of mandible, 72 ; length of lower molar series, 33. Ex skull 

 of skeleton No. 1533 in British Museum. 



Propithecus diadema edwardsi Grandidier. 



Indris diadema (nee Bennett), Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1867, p. 255. 

 Propithecus diadema var. edwardsi Grandid., Compt. Rend., 1871, 



p. 231 ; A. Milne-Edwards et Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag., 



Mamra, I, 1875, p. 4, pi. III. 

 Propithecus edwardsi Sclat., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XVI, 10th 



Ser., 1872, p. 847 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 847 ; 



Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, p. 63; 1879, p. 769; 



Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 297 ; Forbes, Handb. 



Primates, I, 1894, p. 99. 

 Propithecus bicolor Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 10th Ser., 1872, 



p. 206. 

 Propithecus holomelas Gunth., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., 



XVI, 1875, p. 125 ; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 



297; Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 769. (Melanistic 



style) . 

 Propithecus diadema var. holomelas A. Milne-Edw. et Grandid., 



Hist. Nat. Madag., Mamm, I, 1875, p. 4. (Note). 

 Propithecus diadema holomelas Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. 



Mus., VIII, 1906, p. 542, Zool. Ser. 



MILNE-EDWARDS SIFAKA. 



Type locality. Forests in the west of Mananzary. Island of 

 Madagascar, in the interior for the melanistic style holomelas. Type 

 of species in Paris Museum ; type of P. holomelas in British Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Forests of east coast of Madagascar and southern 

 coast from the Masora River to the Faraouny, and the forests of the 

 interior near Fienerentova. 



Genl. Char. Face slightly haired. Color various, sometimes 

 melanistic. 



Color. Head and neck black glossed with purple; back chestnut, 

 growing paler towards middle of back ; lower back white divided by a 

 median brown line ; flanks white ; arms and hands, and upper surface of 

 thighs black; legs and feet purplish chestnut, rump at root of tail, and 



