STENOPS GRACILIS. 33 



[The Slender Lemur (Stenops gracilis, IHig.)-] 



Lemur tardigradus, ecaudatus, dorso concolore, Linn^ei 1 . 



The stomach is round. The pylorus is almost close to the light of 

 the entrance of the oesophagus. The duodenum passes to the right 

 and down that side, without passing to the left, but forms jejunum and 

 ileum, which [latter] passes into the colon. The caecum is long, and 

 terminates almost in a point, and looks like the appendix ca^ci in the 

 human, especially the appendix in the foetus. The colon makes turns 

 upon itself one within the other 2 . 



The external parts of generation consist of vagina and clitoris. The 

 opening of the vagina is about half an inch from the anus, just at the 

 root, and behind a protuberance like a nipple, on which stands the 

 clitoris, and is rather a transverse slit than one in the long axis of the 

 animal. The clitoris stands protuberant on the point of a conical body 

 projecting near half an inch beyond the general surface of the other 

 parts of the body, in which is also the urethra, as in the rat, at the 

 point of which is an opening which is both urethra and preputium 

 clitoridis. This protuberant body has a few long strong hairs on its 

 pinnacle. The vagina is long and small, and divides into two short 

 horns, which are probably the only uterus, as in the rabbit, there being 

 no os tineas. The capsula ovarii is not very complete, having a wide 

 opening 3 . 



The kidneys are conglobate : the capsulse renales are large and promi- 

 nent. There are two nipples between the fore-legs. The eye is large, 

 and the cornea makes nearly the anterior half of the eye. The ears are 

 flat, thin, and a good deal convoluted 4 . This animal may be called a 

 Quadrumanus imperfectus. The hair is very soft, much of it, and about 

 an inch in length. The hands are bare on the palm. 



[The Slow-paced Lemur (Stenops tardigradus, Illig., Loris and 

 Nycticebus, Geoffr. 3 ).] 



Lemur vittatus, caudatus, vitta dorsali subfusca, Linn^ei 6 . 



This appears to be one of the tribe or genus of the Lemur tardi- 

 gradus : there is in a great many respects a considerable similarity. 



1 [There is no species of Lemur so denned in the ' Systema Naturae.'] 



2 [Home, Comp. Anat. i. p. 443.] 3 [Hunt. Prep. No. 1706.] 



* [lb. No. 1612.] 5 [The skull is No. 4634, Osteol. Series.] 



5 [" Lemur tardigradus, ecaudatus, statura sciuri, subferruginea, linea dorsali 

 subfusca." — Systema Naturge, ed. xii. Holmise, 8vo. torn. i. p. 44.] 



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