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Show 1866.] MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON MICRORHYNCHUS. 151 This species is most nearly allied to C. macrostoma, Hinds, but is smaller and more attenuated ; the last whorl is angulated in the middle and more contracted, and the sculpture, although of the same character, is more sharply defined ; it is also without any of the coloured markings which distinguish C. macrostoma. 4. O n the Structure and Affinities of Microrhynchus laniger. By ST. G E O R G E MIVART, F.L.S., F.Z.S. (Plate XV.) MICRORHYNCHUS LANIGER (Linn.). (PI. XV.) Lemur laniger, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmelin, i. p. 44. no. 10; Shaw, Gen. Zool. i. p. 99, pi. 34 ; G. Cuvier, Regne An. t. 1. p. 29 ; Blainville, Osteogr. Lemur, pis. 8 & 11. L. lanatus, Schreber, Siiug. pi. 4 2 A. Lichanotus laniger, Illiger, Prodromus, p. 72. L. avahi, Van der Hoeven, Tijdschr. v. nat. Gesch. xi. p. 44. Indris longicaudatus, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Ann. du Mus. xix. p. 158; Me'm. sur les Makis (1796), et Tabl. des Quad. (1812) ; Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. 97. Indris laniger, Smith, S. Afr. Journ. (1835) ii. p. 27. Indri laniger, Fischer, Syn. p. 73, et Anat. der Maki (1804), p. 16. Semnocebus avahi, Lesson, Species (1840), p. 210. S. laniger, Vrolik in Todd's Cyclop, of Anat. & Phys. iv. p. 215. f. 136. Habrocebus lanatus, Wagner, Schreber, Suppl. i. p. 258 ; v. p. 140. Avahis laniger, Isid. G. St.-Hilaire, Lecons des M a m m . et Cat. Primates, p. 69 ; Paul Gervais, Mammiferes, pt. i. p. 164, pi. 7. Avahi, Jourdan, L'Institut, t. ii. p. 231, 1834_; Chenu, Encyclop. d'Hist. Nat. Quadrumanes, p. 256, pi. 32. Microrhynchus laniger, Jourdan, These inaug. a la Fac. des Sc. de Grenoble, 1834 ; J. E. Gray, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 141 ; St. George Mivart, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 638. Maquis a bourres, Sonnerat, Voy. aux Indes Orient, t. ii. p. 142, pi. 89, 1782. Autre espece de maki, Buffon, Suppl. vii. p. 123, pi. 35. This species was first described and figured by Sonnerat in his 'Voyage aux Indes Orientales'*; but the muzzle is drawn much too long and pointed. The animal is moderately well represented in plate 35 of the seventh supplementary volume of Buffon's * Histoire Naturelle,' published in the ever memorable year 1789. In 1839 an excellent representation of the skull and dentition appeared in De Blainville's ' Osteographie,' Lemur, pis. 8 and 11. * Vol. iv. p. 92, and pi. 87, in the octavo edition in the library of the British Museum. |