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Show 128 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON [Feb. 18, cases the male may be provided with the organ which is wanting in the female. I called the attention of the Society some little time since to the fact that the female of Hapalemur simus' has not this tuft, which is very plain and obvious in most Lemurs, Text-fig. 17. Left fore foot of Dasypus villosus; ventral surface. H, tuft of vibrissa.'. including the male of the closely allied H. griseus. I have, however, met with the structure in too many females of different species of mammals to allow of its being regarded as a sexual 1 "Notes on the Broad-nosed Lemur, Hapalemur simus" P. Z. S, 1901, i. p. 121. |
