LEMURES

Male and female genii, or infernal gods, believed by the ancient Romans to haunt solitary rooms and silent places: they were propitiated by casting beans to them. Their feast was celebrated under the name of Lemuria or Lemuralia. LEMURIDiE. (Lat. lemur, a ghost.) The family of Quadrumanous Wammals of which the genus Lemur is the type; it includes the genera Tarsius, Otolicntts, Steiiops, Lich a not us, and Lemur proper: see those terms. [s. 665]