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Show 964 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON THE LEMUR1D.E. [Dec. 12, together, and not at all hidden by the auditory bullae. The pterygoid fossa also is much elongated from behind forwards, but very narrow from side to side, the true pterygoids extending back much more nearly to the same distance, as do the ectopterygoid plates, than is the case in the smaller species (M. minor). Compare fig. 2 with the figure of the latter species in P. Z. S. 1864, p. 615. Cheirogaleus furcifer. Scale twice nat. size. The extent of the praemaxilla cannot be ascertained, the suture being completely obliterated. As regards tbe skull, then, C. furcifer agrees altogether with C. milii, and even carries still further those characters (length of first upper premolar and smallness of last lower molar) in which the latter species differs from M. pusillus and M. Cheirogaleus furcifer. Scale twice nat. size. |