LORIS 19 



cheeks, chin, and median face stripe whitish ; dark face markings like 

 back; crown tawny; under parts cream buff, outer side of limbs like 

 back ; inner side like belly ; base of fur gray. Ex Lydekker's type of 

 Loris gracilis zeylonicus in British Museum. 



Measurements. About the same as the Indian species. 



Lemur tardigradus Linnaeus was described from a Ceylon speci- 

 men as was clearly proved by Stone and Rehn, (Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Scien. Phila., 1902, p. 137), in their revision of the genus Nyctice- 

 bus. Mr. Lydekker, in the Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 346, 

 decided that the animals from India and Ceylon were separable, one 

 being a race of the other, but unfortunately he selected the one from 

 Ceylon as new, and conferred upon it the name of Loris gracilis zey- 

 lonicus which was preoccupied by L. ceylonicus given by Fischer, 

 (Anat. Maki, p. 28, t. 7, 8, 9, and 18), also to the Ceylon form. In the 

 next species the tangle caused by Mr. Lydekker conferring a name upon 

 the wrong animal was unravelled by Dr. Cabrera. 



Loeis lydekkerianus Cabrera. 



Loris lydekkerianus Cabr., Bol. Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., 1908, p. 



135 ; Thos., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 1908, p. 469. 

 Loris gracilis typicus Lydekk., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 346, 



pi. XXIII, fig. 8. 

 Loris tardigradus Thos., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911, p. 129. 



LYDEKKER'S SLENDER LORIS. 



Type locality. Madras, India. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern India, near states east of British Burma 

 in forests of the lowlands, (Jerdon) ; Madras and possibly on the west 

 coast near Ratnageri, (Blanford). 



Genl. Char. Size small, colors pale, no red on head. 



Color. White stripe from forehead down nose between eyes; 

 orbital ring sooty with a brown tinge, this extending upward on fore- 

 head on each side of the white stripe ; whiskers here quite broad ; top 

 of head, neck and upper parts of body brownish gray with white 

 hairs intermingled; flanks paler, yellowish; sides of head grayish 

 white; lips, chin, throat, under side of body and inner side of limbs 

 white ; outer side of arms to elbow yellowish gray ; forearms and legs 

 below knees sooty gray; outer side of thighs yellowish with a sooty 

 stripe over upper side from hips to knees ; hands and feet white. 



