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Show 486 MR. ST. (J. MIVART ON THE LEMURS. [May 20, twelve) examined by him. Ile also tells me that the so-called lower canine is really an incisor, and that canines below are wanting in the adult. " Chez les jeunes Indrisines la canine inferieure existe, mais elle tombe et n'est jamais remplacee. II y a aussi 3 premolaires inferieures dont 2 seulement sont remplacees, de fac,on que, pour la machoire inferieure la dentition de lait ressemble tout-a-fait a celle des Lemures, I. 2, C. 1, Pre'm. 3, M . 3." The Indrisinee form an exceedingly natural group ; and it is satisfactory to note that Dr. Gray (in his ' Catalogue of Monkeys and Lemurs,' 1870, p. 89) has removed I. laniger from the vicinity of Galago and placed it next to the other species, though he still retains it in a tribe distinct from them, termed Microrhynchina. Turning now to the next notable addition to the national collection, the skeleton of Lepilemur, I find that the skull agrees as to its characters with the specimen in the Jardin des Plantes, before described by me*. Fig.l. Dorsnl aspect of skull of Lepilemur musfelinus. * P. Z. S. 1807, p. 908. |