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all the individuals there, which I do not know, as Spix only brought one 
specimen. But if it should be merely a variety, it would not be, as 
Gray supposes, one of the N. trivirgatus ; but, on account of the agree- 
ment in the marking of the head, stripes, and colour of the tail, one of 
the N. Azarce {N. felinus, Spix). 
Gray’s remark, that the Cheirogaleus Commersonii of Vigors and 
Horsfield, is nothing more than the N. felinus, is valuable. I could 
not bring it in among the half-apes, so that in my monograph, I only 
mentioned it in a note to Cheirogaleus. I cannot imagine how Vigors 
and Horsfield have made such a serious mistake. 
Lemurid^. — G ray defines, in the same work, three new species from 
Madagascar (x. p. 257). 
1. Lemur coronatus ; ash above, limbs and beneath pale yellowish ; 
face white ; orbits grey ; cheeks and forehead bright rufous, with a large 
black spot on the crown ; tail thick, end blackish. 
2. Cheirogaleus Smithii ; pale brown ; streak up the nose and fore- 
head; the chin and beneath paler; tail redder. Distiuguished from 
Ch. typicus, Smith, in British Museum, by its much smaller size and 
different colour, which is greyish-brown ; head a redder brown ; orbits 
black ; cheeks and beneath white. 
3. Galago minor ; pale grey ; back rather browner washed, beneath 
whitish ; tail elongate, depressed, narrow. Not more than half the size 
of the Galago senegalensis. 
CHIROPTERA. 
Many valuable contributions have been given to this order, 
particularly by Temminck, Gray, and Bachmann. 
Frugivora. — Among the ten species of Chiroptera brought 
by Von Siebold from Japan, two belong to the genus Pteropus. 
(Faun. Japon. p. 12). 
Both species, Pt. dasymallus and pselaphon, having been described 
already, I shall only add some more exact information about their dis- 
tribution. The former is found in the south of the island Kiusiu, in the 
district of Satsuma, and rarely at Jakunosima ; the latter is only known 
in the island of Bonin. 
Ruppell’s Pt. schoensis is from Schoa ; “ ecaudatus, auriculus brevi- 
bus, halluce elongato, corporis colore cervino, regione epigastrica canes- 
cente ; macula albicante ante et post auriculas, ad latera faciei a naribus 
per oculos fascia umbrina ; unguibus nigris.” Very like the Pt. Whitei, 
s. Idbiatus, but the ears much shorter. 
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