628 On Two new Species of SIoic-Loris. 



Fur very lonf^, soft and fine, far softer and finer than in 

 jy. coucang. General colour greyisli washed with dark buffy. 

 Dorsal stripe blackisli, continued forwards on to the crown, 

 wliere it meets four blackish lines which rise from in front 

 of the ears, and from the bhick orbital rings on each side, the 

 spaces between these lines contrasted whitish. Temporal 

 area and sides of neck prominently whitish, in marked con- 

 trast to the black mesial band. Hands and feet dull buffy 

 whitisli. 



Skull rather small. Up])er incisors two. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 290 mm.; hind foot 72; ear 23. 



Skull : greatest length 58 ; zygomatic breadth 38 ; front 

 of canine to back of m^ 21. 



Hab. W. Java. Type from Batavia. 



Type. Female with basilar suture not quite closed. B.TM. 

 no. 9. 1. 5. 34. Original number 1371. Collected 21sr 

 February, 1908, by G. C. Shortridge. Presented by W. E. 

 Balston, Esq. One specimen from the type-locality, and 

 another, very similar, said to be from " Sumatra," coll. 

 Ilaffles, but this cannot be implicity trusted. 



This is, no doubt, the animal considered as javanicus by 

 Stone and Rehn and by Lyon in their respective papers on 

 the genus, and also the ^' variety C " of Blyth. But it would 

 seem not to be the vea.\ javanicus of Geoffroy, whose descrip- 

 tion is evidently basfd on one of th-e ordinary Malayan forms 

 without contrasted head-markings, which it is impossible to 

 believe that author would have omitted to mention. More- 

 over, there is in the Museum one of Horsfield's Java specimens 

 w liieh does agree with Geoffioy's description, and this I con- 

 sider to be the real yaran2cz<^^. This Plorsfield specimen is a 

 uniform reddish brown, with inconspicuous face-markings 

 and a brown dorsal stripe — iu fact, very like specimens of 

 malaiatnis, — and thus agrees precisely with the description 

 o'i javanicus. Whether it really came from Java I cannot be 

 certain, but the island is quite large enough to contain Iwo 

 different forms of the genus. 



Furthermore, I believe this Hovsfield specimen oi javanicus 

 represents the true original coucang, Bodd., which, as shown 

 elsewhere (J. Bombay Soc. Nat. Hist.), is certainly not the 

 Bengal and Assam form, as commonly asserted, but one of 

 the Malayan species. N. javanicus should therefore be con- 

 sidered as a synonym of N. coucang. 



