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25. STENOPS TARDIGRADUS, Linn, Sp. 



Lemur tardigradus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. XII., I. p. 44. 

 Nycticebus Bengalensis, Geoff., Ann. du Mus. XIX. p. 164. 

 Stenops tardigradus, Van der Hoeven, Tydschrift voor Nat. 



Ges. VIII. p. 346. Blyth, J. A. S. Bang. XIII. 



p. 478. 

 The slow-paced Lemur or LAJJA BANAR, Sir William 



Jones, Asiatic Researches, IV. p. 135. 

 SHURMUNDI BILLI, Modest cat, Hindustani. 



HAB. Bengal, Assam, the Garrow Hills, Silhet and Arracan. 

 One imperfect ; precise locality not known. 



The two species of Stenops above enumerated resemble each other so 

 closely, that they are considered identical by several authors. They 

 are generally distinguished by zoologists by the number of incisors in 

 the upper jaw, which is four in Stenops tardigradus, and two in the 

 Stenops javanicus ; besides these there are other marks of difference, 

 such as the form of the head, which is more elongated in the Stenops 

 javanicus, the colouring, and the fur, which in the continental species 

 is woolly and somewhat crisp or curled. Dr. Van der Hoeven, in his 

 remarks on the genus Stenops (Tydschrift voor Nat. Ges. VIII. p. 345), 

 characterizes the Stenops javanicus : cauda brevissima, cinereo-flavus, 

 stria dorsali fusca, macula alba frontali, dentibus incisivis superioribus 

 duobus tantum, rostro subacuto elongato. Stenops tardigradus : cauda 

 brevissima, cinereo-flavus ; stria dorsali fusca, fronte fusca, stria alba 

 inter oculos angusta, supra oculos evanescente, dentibus incisivis supe- 

 rioribus quatuor, rostro obtusiusculo. (See also Tyds. p. 285.) 



Mr. Blyth, in the sixteenth volume of the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, enumerates the peculiarities of specimens which he 

 examined from Java, Malacca, and Bengal. In the fourth volume of the 

 Asiatic Researches, Sir William Jones gives an interesting account of 

 an individual which lived with him for some time, of which the follow- 

 ing is an extract : 



" In his manners, he was for the most part gentle, except in the cold 

 season, when his temper seemed wholly changed ; and his Creator, who 

 made him so sensible of cold, to which he must often have been exposed 

 even in his native forests, gave him, probably for that reason, his thick 

 fur, which we rarely see on animals in these tropical climates. To me, 

 who not only constantly fed him, but bathed him twice a week in water 

 accommodated to the seasons, and whom he clearly distinguished from 



