72 PYGATHRIX 



Semnopithecus cephalopterus ( !) white var., Anders., Zool. Res. 

 Exp. Yunnan, 1878, p. 23, (footnote). 



Type locality. Ceylon. 



"C. barbatus totus albus" Erxl. 



A white monkey from Ceylon was described in the above terms by 

 Erxleben, (1. c). Blanford (1. c.) describes P. senex as follows: "Fur 

 dense and wavy, whiskers full. Long white hairs over the toes." 



"Color. Yellowish white, faintly marked with brownish on the 

 head, dusky over the shoulders and on the middle of the back. Face 

 and ears black. Soles and palms flesh-colored." 



"Dimensions. Apparently the same as those of 5. ursinus. 



"Distribution. Mountains of Southern Ceylon at considerable 

 elevations." 



Blanford does not state from what specimen he took his descrip- 

 tion, but does say that the only one he had seen was "a young animal 

 in the Leyden Museum which Schlegel says came from Temminck's 

 Collection and was brought from Ceylon at the end of the last century," 

 (1700). His description does not exactly agree with Blanford's. "Sa 

 teinte dominante, d'un Wane jaunatre, est lavee de brun sur le dos, et 

 de roux sur le dessus de la tete et la nuque." No example from Ceylon 

 answering Erxleben's description is known so far as I am aware, 

 and it was probably an albino of P. ursina, or P. cephaloloptera, 

 or the one described by Kelaart as P. monticola, but which one of 

 these can never now be known, and therefore senex Erxl., being unde- 

 terminable must be dropped from the list. Should a third species of 

 Pygathrix be discovered in Ceylon, it probably will be ascertained 

 to be the one described by Kelaart as Presbytis monticola. 



Pygatheix JOHN! (Fischcr). 



Simia johni Fisch., Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 25. 



Semnopithecus cucullatus I. Geoff., Belang., Voy., Zool., 1834, p 

 38; Id. Compt. Rend., XV, 1842, p. 719; Id. Archiv. Mus 

 Hist. Nat., Paris, H, 1843, p. 541 ; Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840^ 

 p. 59 ; Miill. und Schleg., Verhandl., 1839-44, p. 59 ; Wagn. 

 Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., I, 1840, p. 98; V, 1855, p. 26; Schinz 

 Syn. Mamm., I, 1844, p. 41 ; L Geoff., Cat. Primates, 1851, p 

 13 ; Id. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, V, 1852, p. 538; Gerv. 

 Hist. Nat. Mamm., I, 1854, p. 61, fig. ; Dahlb., Stud. Zool. Fam 

 Reg. Anim. Nat., fasc. I, 1856, pp. 87, 89; Reichenb., Voll- 



