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THE SLOW-I.ORIS. GENUS NYCTICEBUS. 

 Nydiabus^ Geoffr., Ann. du Mus., xix., p. 162 (18 12). 

 Stenops (nee Illiger), Van der Hoeven, Tijdseh. Nat. Ges., xi., 



p. 39 (1844). 

 Bradycebus^ Cuv. et Geoffr., Mem. Class. Mamm. (1795). 



This genus, like the last, is represented by a single species, 

 and its characters, therefore, are detailed below. 



I. THE JAVAN SLOW-LORIS. NYCTICEBUS TARDIGRADUS. 



Lenmr tardigrad^is^ Linn., S. N., i., p. 44 (1766, pt.). 

 Nycticebus hengalensis^ Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 164 (1812). 

 Nycticebus javanicus^ Geoffr., t. c. p. 164 (1812); id. Cat. 



Primates, p. 78 (1851); Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 



286 {1876). 

 Nycticebus fardigraduSy Fischer, Syn. Mamm., p. 71, no. 2 



(1829); Is. Geoffr., Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 78 (1851); 



Blyth, Cat. Mam. As. Soc, p. 18 (1863); Schl., Mus. Pays 



Bas, vii., p. 285(1876); Anderson, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus., 



p. 94 (1881); Blanf., Faun. Brit. Ind. Mamm., p. 44 



(1888). 

 Stenops tardig7-aduSy Van der Hoeven, Tijdschr. Nat. Ges. 



xi., p. 39 (1844) ; Wagner in Schreb., Saug. Suppl., v., p, 



151 (1855). 

 Stenops Javaiiicus, Van der Hoeven, op. cit.^ p. 40 (1844) 



Wagner, op. cit., p. 152 ("1855). 

 Nyciicebus cinereus^ Milne-Edw., Ann. Mus., vii., p. 161 (1867) 



id. N. Arch. Mus., iii., p. 9, pi. 3 (1867) ; Anderson, 



Rep. Zool., Yunnan, p. 103 (1879); Schl., Mus. Pays 



Bas, vii., p. 286 (1876). 

 Lemur menagensisy Nachtrieb, Zool. Anz., xv., p. 147 (1892). 

 {Plate III.) 

 Characters. — Body larger and fuller than in Loris^ and covered 



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