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LEMUR. MACAUCO. 



Generic Character. 



Denies Primores superiores 



quatuor : intermediis re- 



motis. 

 Inferiores sex: longiores, por- 



recti, compressi, paralleli, 



approximate 



Laniarii solitarii, approxi- 

 mati. 



Molares plures sublobati: an- 

 tici longiores, acutiores. 



Front-teeth in the upper jaw- 

 four: the intermediate ones 

 remote. 



In the lower jaw six: longer, 

 stretched forwards, com- 

 pressed, parallel, approxi- 

 mated. 



Canine-teeth solitary, approx- 

 imated. 



Grinders several, sublobated : 

 the foremost somewhat 

 longer and sharper. 



JL HE genus Lemur or Macauco consists of ani- 

 mals approaching to Monkies in the form of their 

 feet, which, in most species, are furnished with flat 

 nails; but differing in their manners, and void of 

 that mischievous and petulant disposition which 

 so much distinguishes the Monkey Tribe from 

 other Quadrupeds. 



In this, as in the former genus, we meet with 

 some species without a tail, while others have 



