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to the former. Both species are figured in Buffon, the first under the title 
I.oris (Hist. Nat, xii.), the second under tliat of Loris de Berigale (Hist, Nad 
Supp. vii.). 
It will be seen that with the genus Microcehus we leave Madagascar, and, 
with a modification of the Lemurine form, enter upon other portions of the 
globe; namely, Africa and India, with the Indian Islands. The genus J^oris is 
exclusively Indian; there has, however, been associated with it, or rather with 
Nycticehus^ by Geoffroy, an animal from Sierra Leone, termed Votto by Bosman 
(Lemur Potto,, Linn., Galago Desm.), of which, until very recently, 
the characters were but imperfectly understood. . The acquisition of a specimen 
in spirits, by the Zoological Society, enabled the late Mr. Bennett to characterize 
it afresh as the type of a distinct genus, to which he gave the name of Pero- 
dicticus; and from his paper in the Proceed, of the Zool. Soc, for 1831 (p. 109) 
we shall make a few extracts, premising that our own examination of the spe¬ 
cimen in question leads us to coincide with the views of that naturalist. 
“ Perodicticus. — Gen, Ghar,-^Facies subfraducta, Artus subcequales. 
Cauda mediocris. Index bremssirnus,, phalange ungueali solum exserto. Dentes 
primores superne 4, subcequales; inf erne 6, graciles,, declives. Canini p 
canici compressi,, marginibus antico^ posticoque acutis; molarium in maxilla 
superiors,, primus minimus; secundus major; ambo conici; tertius acute 
tuberculatusi tuberculis duobus externis, alteroque interno; quartus prsecedenti 
similis, tubercido interno majors ; sequentes (in specimine juniors desunt) : in 
maxilla inferiors duo conici cequales; tertius acute,, externe 2 —, interne \—tu~ 
berculatus, Sequentes (desunt)!’ 
Geoffroy’s Perodicticus (Perodicticus Geoffroyi,, Benn.). —General colour 
chesnut brown, slightly tinged with grey, becoming paler beneath; the fur soft 
and woolly, interspersed with a few cinereous hairs. Length of head and body 
eight inches and two-tenths ; of the tail, including the hair, two inches and three- 
tenths, without the hair one inch and six-tenths. “ The head is rounded, with 
a projecting muzzle; the nostrils are lateral, small, sinuous, with an intermediate 
groove extending to the upper lip; the tongue is rough, with minute papillee, 
rather large, thin, rounded at the tip, and furnished with a tongue-like upper 
layer, which is shorter than the tongue itself, and terminates in about six rather 
long, lanceolate processes, forming a pectinated tip. The eyes are small, round, 
somewhat lateral, and oblique; the ears moderate, open, slightly hairy, both 
within and without. The body is rather slender. The limbs are nearly equal, 
long, and slender; the fingers moderately long. On the fore-hands the index is 
excessively short, the first phalanx being concealed, and the ungueal phalanx 
(the only phalanx free) being barely large enough to support a rounded nail.” 
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