A review of the primates . as shown by Messrs. Stone and Rehn, (1. c.) in theirreview of the Genus. Unfortunately, however, the name had beenpreviously employed by Brisson in the BRADIPODID^, and thereforewas not available, and Loris proposed by Geoffroy, (1. c.) the nextin succession, became the term to be selected. The members of the family NYCTICIBID^ are small animals,nocturnal in habits, slow in movement and covered with a soft, thick,woolly fur. They are contained in four genera: Loris with twospecies; Nycticebus with eleven species and subspecies; Arcto-CEBUS with two and Perodicticus w
A review of the primates . as shown by Messrs. Stone and Rehn, (1. c.) in theirreview of the Genus. Unfortunately, however, the name had beenpreviously employed by Brisson in the BRADIPODID^, and thereforewas not available, and Loris proposed by Geoffroy, (1. c.) the nextin succession, became the term to be selected. The members of the family NYCTICIBID^ are small animals,nocturnal in habits, slow in movement and covered with a soft, thick,woolly fur. They are contained in four genera: Loris with twospecies; Nycticebus with eleven species and subspecies; Arcto-CEBUS with two and Perodicticus with four species. The eyes arelarge and the ears erect; the limbs subequal; the tarsi short, andthe tail is either short, rudimentary or wanting altogether. Thethird upper premolar is smaller than the first and possesses one largeexternal cusp, and the last upper molar varies in the number of itscusps in the different genera, being quadricusped in Loris, tricuspedin Nycticebus and Arctocebus, and bicusped in LORIS ,i. -IS 11) :;l,:,. Mus. li larsir than Xat. Size. LORIS 17 LITERATURE OF THE SPECIES. 1758. Limiceus Systema Naturcc. The slender Loris from Ceylon was here first described asLemur tardigradus; and this nomenclature was followed byErxleben, Gmelin, and Schreber. 1784. Boddccrt, Elenchus Animalitim. The genus Tardigradus was here instituted for the LemurTARDIGRADUS Linn., but being preoccupied by Brisson inBradipodidce could not be again employed. 1796. E. Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, in Magasin Encyclopedique. The Linnasan species Lemur tardigr.\dus was here renamedLemur gracilis, and Loris established as the generic name. 1804. Fischer-de-Waldheim (G). Anatomie der Maki und der ihnenverwandten Thiere. Lemur tardigradus Linn., was here redescribed as Lemurceylonicus. 1904. Lydekker, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of this paper the author separates the Slender Loris from Cey-lon as a species distinct from the Ind
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