NYCTICEBUS 21 



GENUS 2. NYCTICEBUS. SLOW LORIS. 



t 2—2 ~ 1—1 „ 3—3 ., 3—3 r 



I- 2=5; C. ^ ; P. i=i ; M. 3=3 = 36. 



NYCTICEBUS E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, XIX, 1812, p. 



162. Type Nycticebus bengalensis Geoffroy, = Tardigradus 



coucang Boddaert. 

 *Bradycebus Gerv., Diet. Pitt. Hist. Nat., VI, pt. II, 1836, p. 617, 



(desc. nulla). 

 Stenops Van der Hoeven, Tijdsch. Nat. Ges., XI, 1844, p. 39, 



(nee Illiger). 

 Bradylemur Blainv., Osteog., Mamm., I, Lemur, 1839, p. 12. 



Body heavy; fur thick, woolly; head round; muzzle short; eyes 

 large, approximate; neck short; tail lacking; limbs short. Skull with 

 prominent crests ; orbits large ; premaxillae not produced far anteriorly ; 

 palate not extending behind second molar ; inner upper incisors larger 

 than outer; canines very long, diastema present; first premolar elon- 

 gate ; the last molar with a short cusp posteriorly, and three cusps on 

 crown. 



LITERATURE OF THE SPECIES. 



1784. Boddaert, Elenchus Animalium. 



The Indian form was here described as Tardigradus coucang. 

 1812. E. Geoffroy, Annates du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 



Nycticebus javanicus from Java first described. 

 1867. A. Milne-Edwards, in Annates du Museum d'Histoire Naturetle, 



Paris. 



The Siamese form of N. coucang is here named Nycticebus 



coucang cinereus. 

 1870. Gray, (J. E.) Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating 



Bats, in the Collection of the British Museum. 



Nycticebus coucang is called by the Author tardigradus and 



Linnaeus erroneously cited among the authorities given. The 



other species recognized is N. javanicus Geoff., and attention 



This name is not in the paper of Cuv. and Geoff., in the Magazine Encyclo- 

 pedique, the genus No. VI being Papio. Gervais gives Brady cebus (1. a), but he 

 cites the name only without description. 



