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Show 1884.] MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON HAPALEMUR GRISEUS. 393 foot are black as in Lemur ; and in both these genera the interspaces between the pads are occupied by small isolated nodules of horny integument. In Perodicticus and Nycticebus, on the other hand, the palms of both the feet and the hands are flesh-coloured, and the interspaces between the pads are traversed by irregular creases and not separated into distinct and isolated nodules of horny matter. On the inner side of the arm close to the wrist is an oval patch of spine-like processes, about one inch long and one third of an inch broad in the middle, which is shown in the accompanying drawing (fig. 1, A ) . These spines are longest in the middle portion of the Fig. 1. Hand of Hapalemur griseus. patch, and decrease in length towards both extremities". Examined with a hand lens they present the appearance of being'composed of a number of finer threads closely bound together ; the extremity of the spines is blunt, and the longer ones are somewhat curved and overlap each other. The patch of integument which bears these spines is sharply marked off from the surrounding integument, and no transitional forms between the hairs of the general body-surface and these peculiar spines could be observed. The Natural-History |
