14. PEROMCTICUS. 93 



13. LORIS. 



Tail none. Cutting-teeth ^, upper small, nearly equal. Nose 



elonfi;ate, verj' acute. Body slender. Limbs very long. Thigh 



elongate, nearly half as long as the body. Tarsus moderate. Eyes 

 large, close together. 



rrosiniia, Cur. ,$■ Geoff. 1798. Loris, Geoff. 170G; Grai/, P. Z. S. 

 18().'5, p. 150. Stcnops, part., Illii/er. Arachnocebus, Lesson, 

 1840. 



Loris gracilis. B. M. 



Fur of back rufous, sooty-grey varied ; cheeks and beneath ashy 

 white ; spot between the eyes and in front of the ears white. 



Loris gracilis, Geoff. ; Audeh. M. f. 2 ; Blainv. Osteogr. t. 7. f. 5. Lemur 

 tardigradus, Li)tn. Mus. A. ; Schreb. t. 38. L. lori, Zimm. L. cey- 

 lonicus, Fischer, 3I(ikis, t. 7, 8, 9 & 18. Loris, Bvffon, H. N. xiii. 

 t. 80, 32 ; Slum; Zool. i. t. 31 ; Seha, i. t. 35. f. 1, 2 ; Hoeven, Tijds. 

 i. t. f. 4, skull ; KnirjU, M. A. N. f. 203, 204. Stenops gi-ncilis, 

 Voigt. Arachnocebus, Lesson. 



Hah. Ceylon ; India : Pondicheriy. 



Tribe VI. PERODICTICINA. 



The fore and hind legs nearly equal in length. Face short, broad. 

 The hand broad. The index linger abortive, clawless. Eyes 

 moderate. 



14. PERODICTICUS, Bennett. 



Tail shorter than the body. The hands and feet large. Fingers 

 and toes free at the ends ; the index finger rudimentary, but dis- 

 tinct. Lower cutting-teeth large, prominent, and projecting. The 

 apices of the vertebra; of the back, neck, and withers projecting 

 beyond the skin, like prickles. 



Perodicticus, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 109. Grag, P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 150. Potto, Lesson. 



Perodicticus potto. B. M. 



Very slow ; slee])s by day, rolled in a ball, with the head between 

 the fore legs and folded into the chest, holcUng on by the fore and 

 hind legs to the edge of the cage. Lively by night. Hand with 

 only a very short rudimentary index, the ring finger rather the 

 longest ; foot similar, but with a regular index, armed with a 

 long, arched, broad nail; nails thin, oblong, transverse, rounded at the 

 end like the human ; nose deei)ly nicked in the centre, with rather 

 elongate semilunar nostrils on each side, rather higher than the tip 

 of the nose, naked, flesli-coloured ; upper part of nose rather naked; 

 eyes large, very convex, pu])il obbnig, rather oblique ; the four ver- 

 tebra) between the fronts of the bladebones produced beyond the skiji. 



