LEMUR. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Four cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and six in the lower. 
Two canine teeth in each jaw. 
Feet formed like hands. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lemur tardigradus. L. ecaudatus subferrugineus. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 41 . 
Tailless lemur, of a pale rusty brown 
colour. 
Sinaia unguibus indicis pedum posterio- 
rum longis, incurvis et acutis. Briss. 
Quadr. 190. n. 3 . 
Tailless Macauco. Penn. Hist. Quadr. 
v. 1 . p. 227 . pi. 49. Bew. Quadr. 
p. 409. 
Slow Lemur. . . . Specul. Linn. l.t. 5. Shaw Gen. Zool. 
pi. 29. 
The late learned Sir William Jones has made one 
of these animals the subject of a very interesting 
paper, inserted in the fourth volume of the Asiatic 
Researches. He has there given so just a descrip- 
tion of its form, and so pleasing an account of its 
