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Color. Nude yellowish spot above eves: face covered with short 

 gray hairs; short black bar above eyes; top of head and entire upper 

 parts dark hull' yellow and black; hair gray at base and then banded 

 with hull' yellow and black and tipped with black; outer side of anus 

 and hands more grayish than upper parts, base of hairs being bluish 

 gray and handed with cream buff and tipped with black; outer side 

 of thighs like hack: legs from knees to ankles, and feet gray, with 

 cream-buff annulations less numerous and distinct than on arms; 

 whorl on side of head below ears whitish gray with a cream-buff 

 edging; throat, underparts and inner side of limbs, yellowish white; 

 tail above, blackish brown at base, speckled with bull": remainder 

 dark hair brown, beneath olive gray. 



Measurements. — Total length, 1,052 mm.; tail, 580; foot. 111; 

 skull, total length, 127: occipito-nasal length, 106.7; hensel, 90; inter- 

 temporal width, 41.3; zygomatic width, 88.9; palatal length, 51.9; 

 median length of nasals, 22.3; length of upper molar series, 34.9; 

 length of mandible, 89.1 : length of lower molar series, 30.!). 



This species differs from its nearest ally P. cupidus, by having the 

 hands mi haii- much paler, and a more olive tail. The skulls, how- 

 ever, arc entirely dissimilar, thai of the present species being much 

 larger. The rostrum is broader and heavier, nasals wider, orbital 

 ridges heavier and more elevated in center; low cresl higher and 

 shorter, the two lateral ridges not uniting until they reach the pos- 

 terior portion of the frontal ; occipital regiou has a more acute angle; 

 bullae more inflated; palate wider: tooth rows curved posteriorly, 

 the last molar set inwards on both sides; incisors projecting at a 

 more acute angle; zygomatic arch curved and with considerable 

 spread. Tin 1 skulls of these two macaques possess unusually nu- 

 merous points of difference not often seen in allied species. 



PITHECUS CUPIDUS, new species. 



Type-locality. Pulo Mat a Siri, Java Sea, 41 miles from Pulo Laut. 



Type. Cat' No. 151831, CJ.S.N.M. 



General characteristics. Size moderate: hands and feel yellowish; 

 t.nl longer than head and body; hair radiating fan-like from eats. 



Color. Space above eyes nude, flesh color, or yellowish; face 

 covered with ver\ shorl -ravish- white hairs: cheeks and sides of 

 head yellowish gray, hair long and radiating forward from ears, Ian 

 shape; top of head and entire upper parts, general tone ochraceous 



hull' and black, the hairs graj at base and handed with »chraceOUS 



hull' and black and tipped with black; flanks graj and with a yellow 

 tinge; arms and hand-, legs and feet cream buff and dusky, the hairs 

 dusky at base, barred with cream hull' and black, and tipped with 

 the latter color; throat, chest and entire under parts of body, and 

 inner side of limbs whitish; tail above brownish black for three- 



