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than tlie anterior limbs. This becomes much deeper on the hands (hinder), which 
are fulvous, except on the fingers, where there is a very considerable intermixture 
of black, the terminal tufts, equally long with those of the anterior hands, being 
as in them fulvous. The under surface is white throughout, with the exception 
of the hinder part of the throat, where it is of the same colour with the sides of, 
the body. The hairs are generally long, silky, waved, erect, and glossy. On the 
crupper, they are shorter and more dense, offering a sort of leoolh/ resistance. 
On the tail, they have the general character of those of the body, but are con¬ 
siderably shorter.” 
Length of the head and body, Ift. .9 in.; of the tail Ift. 5in. 
‘‘ The external characters, by which Fropithecus is distinguished from Lemur^ 
are its shorter muzzle, terminated by more approximate nostrils, the upper 
margin of which appears to be slightly lobulated; its rounded ears; the, marked 
disproportion in length between its hinder and anterior extremities; the greater 
length of its hands, especially of the anterior; the shortness of its anterior 
thumb, which is also placed much farther back; the marked abbreviation of the 
anterior index; the development and power of the hinder shank, which is nearly 
an equal opponent to the whole of the fingers; and the comparative shortness of 
the hairs by which the tail is covered.”-—Habitat Madagascar, where it is stated 
to be rare. Of its history nothing is known. In Mus. Zool. Soc. , 
Now, if we compare the description of the Long-tailed Indri,^with that just 
given of the Diadem Fropithecus, we shall not fail to perceive the resemblance, 
notwithstanding some points of variation, and an inferiority in size. Length of 
head and body about 15 inches. The body has a stout appearance, from the 
thickness of the fur; the head is less elongated than in the Short-tailed Indri; 
the forehead is broad; the eyes large, the ears short and concealed under the fur, 
w^hich is of a deep yellow or fulvous; thumb of the hinder hands large and strong, 
with a broad nail, thin and flat; first toe united at the base to the thumb, by a 
black membrane. Fur soft and woolly; general colour yellow; under surface 
generally, and inside of limbs, dull white tinged with yellow; crupper, around 
the root of the tail, white. A black mark covers the nose and part of the face, 
terminating in a point on the forehead; hind feet covered with mingled grey and 
yellow hairs; fingers and nails black.— Desmarest, .and Geoffroy in 
Annates du Museum^ xix., p. 158.—The chief differences between this animal 
and the preceding, it will be seen, consist in the inferiority in size of the latter, 
in the arrangement of black on the face, and the presumed absence of this colour on 
the back of the neck and shoulders, together with the absence to the white band 
across the forehead, bounding anteriorly a black cap. Still, in the general yellow 
tint pervading the limbs and body, in the shortness of the ears, the. abbreviation 
of the muzzle, and in the quality of the fur, the coincidence is remarkable; inso- 
