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Show 1900.] MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON BASSARICYON ALLENI. 663 The nose is naked, and there is a marked median groove which also cleaves the upper lip. This groove is perfectly visible upon the dorsal surface of the nose, and there are even indications of it on the fur-clad region behind. The nostrils are prolonged into narrow slit-like orifices which are quite visible laterally. The palms and soles are quite naked. The claws are not of great length or strength. Neither are they of course retractile. There are five or six long vibrissae forming the whiskers, three or four upon each cheek and two or three under the chin. Furthermore, on the arm not far from tbe hand is a tuft of long and quite Fig. 1. Manus of Bassaricyon alleni, illustrating the tuft of vibrissas upon the wrist. similar hairs. They appear to agree with a " cluster of long stiff hairs " described as occupying an identical position upon the arm of Lemur catta and of other Lemurs by M r . Bland Sutton \ Apart, however, from the subject of the present paper, these tufts of long hairs upon the arm are by no means peculiar to the Lemurs, as might be inferred from reading Mr. Sutton's paper. I have seen them on a Malabar Squirrel and upon the arms of several other 1 " On the Arm-glands of the Lemurs," P. Z. S. 1887, p. 369. |