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specific value but merely individualistic. The "generally browner 

 color" of P. n. keatii, pertains to such examples of P. femoralis as 

 have not assumed the fully adult dress which is black, and the length 

 of the abdominal white line varies among individuals, and cannot be 

 relied upon as a specific character. P. femoralis ranges in the Malay 

 Peninsula north to Tenasserim, and it is not reasonable to believe that 

 a distinct subspecific form is found within that species' limits, espe- 

 cially one so slightly differentiated as P. n. keatii. It is therefore 

 considered as a young adult of the present species and the name placed 

 among its synonyms. 



Flower states, (1. c.) that "in September 1897, in the woods 

 among the foothills of Gunong Puli, Johore, were many Lutongs of 

 this species going about in flocks; they were shy and difficult to see 

 except for a glimpse of a black form disappearing from one high tree 

 to another." 



Hose (1. c.) says that "this monkey is a low country species 

 seldom to be found on the mountains, and then only ascends to about 

 1,000 feet. It is fond of living near the sea shore, and is generally 

 found in numbers of from ten to thirty, sitting on the branches of tall 

 trees in open spaces. Its Dyak name is 'Bigit,' that of the Kyaas 

 'Pant.' " 



Pygathrix melameea (Elliot). 



Presbytis melamera Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IV, 8th Ser., 

 1909, p. 267. 



Type locality. Cadu Ciaung, Bhamo, north Burma. Type in 

 British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Resembling P. obscura, but legs uniform sooty or 

 blackish brown ; hair long, thick, soft ; head without crest. 



Color. Long hair on forehead directed upward and forward, and 

 with hairs on cheeks framing the face, black; hair on back of neck 

 long, extending on to back, drab gray but not forming a conspicuous 

 patch as in P. obscura; dark hairs of head and back mingling with 

 the light ones ; top of head, sides of body and rump, shoulders, outer 

 side of arms and legs to wrists and ankles, blackish brown ; dorsal 

 region more of a reddish brown, and paler than the flanks ; whiskers 

 long, blackish brown, the hairs with pale tips ; chin white ; under parts, 

 inner side of arms, and inner side of thighs, sparsely covered with 

 whitish hairs; inner side of legs below knees similar to upper part, 

 but paler ; tail blackish brown at base, grading into grayish brown, and 

 with a white patch at base of tail beneath ; face brownish, with space 



