94 MAMMALIA. 



Hab. The great forests of the eastern portion of Madagas- 

 car. — SchlegeL 



81a. The skin of an adult. By exchange with the British 

 Museum, 6th January 1879. 



b. The skin of an adult female : darker than the last speci- 

 men. Purchased, 21st January 1879. 



c. The skeleton of an adult. By exchange with the British 

 Museum, 21st January 1879. 



Genus INDRIS, Geoff., 1796. 



82. Indris brevicaudatus. 



Indris brevicaudatus, Geoff. St.Sil., Mem. sur les Sapp, Nat. 

 des Makis, t. i Magasin Encyclopid. 1796, p. 46; AlpTi. Milne 

 Edwards Sf Alf. Grandidier, Hist. Phys. Nat. et Fol. de 

 Madagascar, t. vi ; Mist. Nat. des Mammif. t. i, teste p. 335, 

 pis. xi, xii. 



Hah. Forests on the eastern side of the great mountains, 

 between the bay of Antongil to the north, and the river 

 Masora to the south. — Alph. Milne Edwards 8f Grandidier. 



82a. The skin of an adult female, of the variety described 

 by Professor Peters as Liehanotus mitratus.^ By exchange 

 with the British Museum, 6th January 1879. 



II.— Eamllt NTCTICEBIDJE. 



I.— Sub-Family NYCTICEBIN^. 

 Genus NTCTIOEBUS, Geoff., 1795. 



83. Nyctieebus tardlgradus. 



Le pavesseux pentadactyle da Bengale, Vosmaer, Description Amsterd, 



1770, pi. vi. 

 Le Loris paresseux, Audeheri, Sist. des Singes et Makis, 1797, fig. 1. 

 Lemur tardigradus, Linn., Syst, Nat. 12tli ed. 1766, p. 44. 

 Stenops tardigradus, Illiger, Prod. Syst. Mamm. 1811, p. 73. 

 Nycticebus bengalensis et javanicus, Geoff. St.Sil., Ann. du Mus. t 



xix, 1812, p. 164. 

 Nycticebus cinereus, A. M. Edwards, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. t. iii, 1867 ; 



Bull. 1869, p. 11, pi. iii ; Anderson, Anat. ^ Zool. Resch. 1878, p. 103. 

 Nycticebtis tardigradus, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus, 1863, p. 18 ; 



Anderson, Anat. ^ Zool. Resch. 1878, pp. 103 et seq. 



' M. B. Akad. der Wiss. zu Berliu (1871), p. 360. 



