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Show 1837.] ARM-GLANDS OF THE LEMURS. 371 the arm of Lemur catta, and w.as enabled to make some preliminary observations concerning it in the ' Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery,' N e w York, Jan. 1887. The comb-like organ on the arm of Lemur catta may be thus described:- It is situated about two inches above the wrist-joint, on the flexor aspect, and in a young Lemur is about three-eighths of an inch in length. It is of an oval shape, soft, compressible, and long hairs. marked with fine lines like the tip of the finger, and of a black Colour The organ is raised above the genera level of the integu-coiour. AIIO u g p^v-th of an inch. Its major axis lies in S T f - J o "he1mb » d it i continuous with tile palm of the todb? T5££2* of black hairless skin The organ is present f„?he male and female. In older Lemurs a hard nations projecting cnnr is seen on its inner side. P T h S spur or projection in Lemur catta resembles, on a large scale, vhePsPines on the arms of Hapalemur, and I have no doubt |