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Show 1901.] LEMUR M O N G O Z A N D L. RUBRIVENTER. 249 groups of the Primates. Although the author limited himself almost exclusively to outer characters, his practised eye very often, aud, so far as the genus Lemur is concerned, as a rule, hit upon the truth. His shortcomings are due to the lack of sufficient collections, and the entire neglect of cranial characters, considered by him to be " un terrain glissant." In the following paper I have done my best to contribute to a better knowledge of two species of the genus Lemur, with especial reference to some characteristic features of their skull. Incidentally have been pointed out the cranial characters of a third species, one which is almost always confused with Lemur mongoz L. 1. LEMUR MONGOZ L. The Mongooz, G. Edwards, Gleanings of Natural History, Ch. v. pi. 126, p. 12 (1758). Lemur mongoz, Linn. S. N. (12) i. p. 44 (1766) : A. Wagner in Schreber's Saugthiere, Suppl. i. pp. 267, 268 (1840) (exc. p. syn.); id. op. cit. Suppl. v. p. 144 (1855) (exc. p. syn.); H. Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 75 (1866); H. Schlegel et Pollen, Eech. Faune Madag. ii. p. 4 (1868); P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 231 (exc. p. syn.); H. Schlegel, Mus. Hist, Nat. Pays-Bas, vii. p. 312 (1876); Jentink, Mus. Hist. Nat. Pays-Bas, ix. p. 62 (1887). Lemur albimanus, E. Geoffr. S.-H, Tabl. des Quadr. p. 160 (1812); I. Geoffr. S.-H, Cat. meth. p. 72 (1851); A. Milne- Edwards et Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. (2) x. p. 282 (1888); A. Milne-Edwards et A. Grandidier, Hist. Nat, des Mammiteres (Hist. . . . de Madagascar, ed. A. Grandidier), x. tome v. Atlas ii. pis. 156, 157, 162-164, 165, figs. 1, 2 (1890); L. v. Lorenz-Liburnau, Abh. Senckenb. naturf. Ges. xxi. iii. p. 450, pi. xxxiii. fig. 2 (1898). Mongous cVAnjouan, F. Cuvier (E. Geoffr. S.-H. et F. Cuvier), Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes, 87, sub " Le Mongous," pp. 2 & 3 (.1819). Lemur dubius, F. Cuvier, op. cit. 93 (1834). Lemur anjuanensis, Peters, Eeise nach Mossambique, Zool. i. p. 21 (1852); Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iii. p. 215 (1879). Prosimia albimana, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Londou, 1863, p. 139. Lemur cuvieri, Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixii. i. p. 58 (1870). Anticipating tbe result of the following detailed review, I may state at once briefly the history of the name " Lemur mongozr Linnaeus based his species upon the tolerably good figure and the o-ood description of " The Mongooz " in G. Edwards's Gleanings. Schreberl and soon afterwards Gmelin" extended the name to 1 Die Saugthiere, i. p. 137 : " Der Mungus " (1774). s Oaroli a Linne, Systenia Nat. xiii. ed. pp. 42, 43 (1788). |