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into Cuttack. It has constantly black hands and feet ; the fore 

 arm and leg externally, with the croup, are of a pale chocolat au 

 lait colour, extending more or less over the back, humerus and 

 thigh ; and the rest is of a light straw-colour, or pale isabelline, 

 with occasionally a tinge of ferruginous on the belly. It is 

 figured by the late Mr. Bennett in the ' Gardens and Menagerie 

 of the Zoological Society.' 



Very different is the S, Priamus, Elliot, of the Coromandel coast, 

 which has naught of the yellowish tinge, the whole back and 

 outside of the limbs, with the crown of the head, being nearly of 

 the chocolat au lait hue confined to parts of the former, but 

 having more of the lait in it, and as usual being most intense 

 about the croup ; the hands and feet are pale and concolorous 

 with the rest of the limbs ; the whiskers and occiput whitish ; 

 and a strongly marked peculiarity consists in having an abruptly 

 rising erect crest upon the vertex, analogous to that of S, crista- 

 tus (vel ? obscurus) . 



The S. Anchises, Elliot, represents the former in the Deccan 

 and along the foot of the western ghauts. A skin presented to 

 the Society by that gentleman, with three examples of S. Priamus, 

 resembles the darkest specimens of S. Entellus in colour, but has 

 the leg from the knee whitish (perhaps not a constant distinction), 

 the hands mingled white and blackish, and the feet whitish, with 

 dusky black above the base of the toes and on their terminal 

 phalanges ; but the coat generally is much longer than in >S^. En- 

 tellus, the hairs on the sides measuring four, five, and even six 

 inches in length ; and those which grow upon the toes, and in a 

 less degree those of the fingers, which are very copious, are also 

 remarkably elongated, extending considerably beyond the tips of 

 the toes, which thus present a spaniel-like appearance. Mr. 

 Elliot, to whom the merit is due of first distinguishing these 

 species, and who is well-acquainted with both of them, will shortly 

 describe their characters more minutely. 



The same gentleman has also forwarded for my inspection an 

 imperfect skin of a half-grown animal, received from the Coini- 

 batore district or its vicinity, which presents the colouring of the 

 true Eiitellus, and has the black hands and feet well-marked ; but 

 the coat is different in texture, the hairs of it being quite straight, 

 and not exhibiting the waviness which is constantly observable 

 in those of >S^. Entellus of every age, causing the light to fall irre- 

 gularly on each hair of the latter species ; while on those of the 

 specimen in question, as in S. Anchises, the shine is uniform, and 

 the same straightness of hair is observable in S. Priamus : this may 

 appear a trivial distinction, but it is nevertheless a well-marked 

 one, which at once characterizes S. Entellus apart from either of the 

 others ; and I incline to consider, for the present at least, the 



