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Show 1901.] LEMUR MONGOZ AND L. RUBRIVENTER. 253 favoris, tin bandeau frontal ou meme tout le front et le vertex d'un roux vif; tandis que la femelle offre des favoris Wanes et un large bandeau noir sur le devant du front, sans nulle trace de roux. Ce bandeau noir est tres caracteristique pour la femelle du Mongoz, et ue se retrouve pas non plus dans aucune autre espece du genre." ' Four specimens of a Lemur collected by Mr. C. E. Bewsher in Anjuan and preserved in the British Museum have been described by Giinther, likewise under the name L. anjuanensis. It is stated that Peters's description of the female " agrees entirely with a specimen of the same sex obtained by Mr. Bewsber." The three males are exactly alike ; " the face before the eyes is white, the nose blackish, the forehead with mixed black and whitish hairs ; the side of the throat below the eye, and the throat itself, bright brownish red; crown, back, outer side of the legs, and the greater part of the tail grey, with a not very perceptible rufous tinge on the rump ; chest and abdomen greyish, with a rufous tinge; inner side of the legs with scarcely any white ; hands aud feet grey (in one specimen whitish); the terminal third or fourth of the tail blackish."2 It will have been observed that Peters states the snout of the female to be black. The female in the British Museum, said by Giinther to agree with the one described by the former writer, has only the tip of the nose black. Peters may have used the term " Schnauze " in a loose sense, or he may have disregarded the whitish hairs covering the dark skin of the snout3. The agreement with the British Museum specimens from Anjuan is so perfect in all the other characters, that I have given Peters's specimen a place in the synonymy of Lemur mongoz. A specimen in the British Museum (Z. D. No. 79.11.12.7), collected by Dr. (Sir John) Kirk in another of the Comores, Mohilla, agrees exactly iu the characters of the skin with the male specimens from Anjuau. The cranial characters are those of the species under consideration (see below). This is the only record of a Lemur occurring in Mohilla Island. In their " Etudes sur les Mammiferes et les Oiseaux des lies Comores " 4, A. Milne-Edwards and Oustalet state that the species of Lemur, common in the forests of the Island of Anjuan, at about 1000 metres, is the Lemur albimanus E. Geoffr. S.-H. They deny that this species has ever been found in Madagascar : " Le Lemur albimanus a ete decrit par Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire d'apres un exemplaire de la collection du Museum rapporte par Peron et Lesueur, lors de Pexpedition de la corvette le Geographe, en 1803, et indiquc comme recueilli a Madagascar. Or jamais, a notre 1 Op. cit. p. 312. Schlegel adds : "M. Sclater a indique a l'inverse le sexe de ees deux individus.' This applies, of course, only to the explanation of the figures in pi. xvi. of the P. Z. S. 1871. 2 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iii. p. 215 (1879). 3 Cf plates 162-165 in Grandidiers Atlas. 4 Nouv. Arch. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. (2) x. p. 222 (1888). |