. Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum. Monkeys; Lemurs; Pteropodidae. 86 LEMURIDJD. *** Tail slender, cylindrical; ears smaller. Hemigalago. Hemigalago, Dahlbom, 1857. " A new genus, intermediate between Galago and Mierocehus, I. ; 5. Galago Demidoffii. £. M. Brown; side of face dark; nose-streak white, narrow; chin, throat, and below reddish grey ; tail one-half as long again as the body and head, darker at the hinder half; skuU, length 1" 5'", width 10i"'j length of hind foot 1" 8'". Galago Demid
. Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum. Monkeys; Lemurs; Pteropodidae. 86 LEMURIDJD. *** Tail slender, cylindrical; ears smaller. Hemigalago. Hemigalago, Dahlbom, 1857. " A new genus, intermediate between Galago and Mierocehus, I. ; 5. Galago Demidoffii. £. M. Brown; side of face dark; nose-streak white, narrow; chin, throat, and below reddish grey ; tail one-half as long again as the body and head, darker at the hinder half; skuU, length 1" 5'", width 10i"'j length of hind foot 1" 8'". Galago Demidoffii, Mscher, MSm. Ac. Mosc. i. t, 24. f. 1,1806. Hemi- galago Demidoffii, Dahlbom, Stud. p. 230, Galago seuegalensis, X. Praser. G. murinus, Murray, Hdinh: Phil. Journ. n. s. x. t. 11. Galagoides Demidoffii, A. Smith. Hob. West Africa: Gaboon. There are several specimens of this animal in the Museum Col- lection. The skin of the adult measures about 5 inches long, from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail; the tail is 7g inches long ; the hind foot and shin are about 1 inch 8 lines long. There are some smaller specimens in spirits, which appear to be younger, which have the hind foot only from 1 inch 4 lines to 1 inch 6 lines long. I am induced to suppose that Mr. Murray's Galago murinvs from Old Calabar is the young of this species, as the hind foot is figured about IJ inch long. The skull without a lower jaw, which in the Museum Catalogue of Bones is put undeiMicroeebus myoxvnMs{Tg^. 33), evidently belongs to this species. Fig. 1* Galago Demidoffii. 8. LEPILEMUR ? I. Geoff. 1851. Cutting-teeth ^, the two front upper longer. Ears elongate, membranaceous, bald, and exposed. Foot broad, shorter than the shank. Tail cylindrical, covered with close-set short hair. Lepilemur, Geoff.; Gray, P. Z. 8. 186S, p. 143. Microcebus, Water- home ; Peters; Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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