74 MAMMALIA. 



They feed on insects, occasionally on small birds and quadrupeds, 

 their gait is excessively slow, and mode of life nocturnal. M. Car- 

 lisle has found that the base of the arteries of the limbs is divided 

 into small branches, as in the true Sloths. Two species only are 

 known, both of them from the East Indies. 



Lent, tardigradus, L. ; (The Slow Loris, or Sloth of Bengal.) 

 Buff. Supp. VII, 36. Fawn-coloured grey, a brown streak 

 along the back ; two of the upper incisors sometimes want- 



ing-(0 



Lem. gracilis, L. (The Slender Loris.) Buff. XIII, 30, and 



better, Seb. I, 47. Fawn-coloured grey; no dorsal stripe ; 

 rather smaller than the preceding; nose more raised by a pro- 

 jection of the intermaxillaries.(2) 



Galago, Geoff. Otolincus, Illig. 



The teeth and insectivorous regimen of the preceding ; elongated 

 tarsi which produce a disproportion in the dimensions of their hind 

 feet ; a long tufted tail ; large membranous ears and great eyes, 

 which announce nocturnal habits. 



There are several species known, all from Africa. (3) It ap- 

 pears also that we should refer to them an animal of that coun- 

 try {Lemur potto, Gm.), Bosman, Voy. in Guin., p. 252, No. 

 4, Avhose gait is said to be as slow as that of the Loris and 

 Sloths. 



Taesius. 



Elongated tarsi, and all the other details of form belonging to the 

 preceding division ; but the space between the molars and incisors 

 is occupied by several shorter teeth ; the middle superior incisors 

 are lengthened and resemble canini. The muzzle is very short, and 

 the eyes still larger than those of the Galago. They are nocturnal 

 animals, and feed on insects. From the Moluccas. Lemur spec- 

 trum. Pall., Buff. XIII, 9.(4) 



(1) The slowness of its gait, which caused it to be mistaken for a Sloth, has 

 induced some authors to maintain, in opposition to Buffon and to truth, that the 

 genus of the Sloths exists also in Asia. 



(2) From this difference in the nose, Geoffroy makes of the first species the 

 genus Ntcticerus, and of the second that of Lohis. 



(3) The great Galago, as large as a RsLhhlt {Galago crassicaudatus, Geoff.). The 

 middling one the size of a Rat (Galago senegalensis, id.); Schreb. XXXVIII, Bb, 

 Audeb. Gal. pi. 1. The small one a little less. Brown, 111. 44. Compare also the 

 Galago of Demidorf, Fischer, Mem. des Nat. de Mouscou, f, pi. 1. 



(4) Compare the Tarsius fuscomanus, Fischer, Annat. des IMakis, pi. 3, and 

 the Tarsius bancanus, Horsfield, Java. 



