62 “MAMMALIA, 
Lem. gracilis(a), L. (The Slender Loris). Buff. XIII. 30, and 
better, Seb. I. 47. Fawn-coloured grey; no dorsal stripe; a little 
smaller than the preceding; nose more raised by a projection of the 
intermaxillaries*. 
Gataco, Geoff.—Orotricnvs, Lilig. 
Have the teeth and live on the insectivorous food 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 imply a nocturnal life. 
There are several species known, all from Africa}. It would ap- 
pear that we should refer to these also an animal of that country 
(Lemur potto, Gm.), the Bosman, Voy. in Guin., p. 252, No. 4, 
whose gait is said to be as slow as that of the Loris and Sloths. 
TARSIUS. 
The Tarsiers have the tarsi elongated, and all the other peculiarities of 
form belonging to the preceding division; but the space between their 
grinders and incisors is occupied by several shorter teeth; the middle su- 
perior incisors are lengthened and resemble the canine. The muzzle is 
very short, and the eyes still larger than those of all the preceding. They 
are nocturnal animals, and feed on insects. From the Moluceas. Lemur 
spectrum, Pall., Buff. XIII. 9 f. 
* From this difference in the nose, M. Geoffroy makes of the first species the 
genus NycTicesus, and of the second that of Loris. 
+ The great Galago, as large as a rabbit (Galago ecrassicaudatus, Geoff.) The 
middling one the size of a rat (Galago senegalensis, id.); Schreb. XX XVIII. Bb. 
Audeb. Gal. pl. 1.—The small one a little less, Brown, Hl. 44.—Compare also the 
Galago of Demidorf, Fischer, Mem. des Nat. de Moscou, I. pl. 1. 
+ Compare the Tarsius fuscomanus, Fischer, Annat. des Makis, pl. 3, and the 
Tarsius bancanus, Horsfield, Java. 
Travellers should search for certain animals drawn by Commerson, and which 
M. Geoffroy has had engraved, Ann. Mus. XIX. 10, under the name of Cheirogaleus. 
These figures seem to announce a new genus or subgenus of the Quadrumana. 
(= (a) In the examination of a specimen of this species which recently died in the 
Zoological Gardens in Regent’s Park, the distribution of the arteries to the limbs was 
found to be analogous to that very peculiar one which obtains in the Lemurs and 
Sloths, except, that in the Loris the structure and distribution of the vessels supply- 
ing the blood appeared to be destined more to the object of increasing the tenacity of 
the animal’s grasp, and to allow to him to prolong the state of muscular contraction 
with impunity.—Ene. Ep. 
