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LEMUR. MACAUCO. 
Generic Character, 
Denies Primores superiores 
quatuor : intermediis re- 
motis. 
Inferiores sex: longiores, por- 
recti, Gompressi, paralleli, 
approximati. 
Laniarii solitarii, approxi- 
mati. 
Mo/ares 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. 
The 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 
