96 PYGATHRIX 



Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1862, p. 97, figs. 234, 235 ; Schleg., 



Mus. Pays-Bays, Simiae, 1876, p. 62. 

 Presbytis hypoleuca Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., XVI, 1847, 



p. 733. 

 Presbytis johni Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., XXVIII, 1859, 



p. 283; Id. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 1863, p. 12; 



Jerd., Mamm. India, 1867, p. 7. 



MALABAR LANGUR. 



Type locality. Travancore. Type not found in Calcutta Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Malabar coast to Cape Comorin, up to 1,200 feet 

 elevation. 



Genl. Char. Similar to P. entellus, but always darker in the 

 middle of the back than on the sides ; no crest, hair on crown radiating 

 from the center. 



Color. Head, cream buff, with a narrow black line on border of 

 face ; back, shoulders and arms to elbows purplish brown ; forearms, 

 hands, legs and feet black; lower part of sides, under parts of body, 

 and sides of thighs, and anal region pale yellowish ; tail black ; face 

 black. No skull. Ex spec. Calcutta Museum from Travancore. 



Anderson gives measurements of the type (1. c.) as follows: 

 premaxillaries to the lambdoidal ridge, 4.26 inches ; palate, 1.73 ; 

 fronto-malar breadth, 2.55 ; zygomatic width, 3.30 in. ; occipital and 

 basioccipital portions of skull wanting. These figures indicate that 

 P. HYPOLEUCA is the smallest of this group of monkeys. 



The type of 5". dussumieri is in the Paris Museum, a female with 

 a young one in her arms, and though faded somewhat on the back, 

 agrees with the description of the specimen in the Calcutta Museum. 



The habits of this species do not dififer much from those of P. 

 ENTELLUS, and although it is found in trees near houses, according to 

 Blanford, it is not familiar and shuns observation. It has the usual 

 loud call of the genus, and the same kind of alarm note, when it sees 

 tigers or other beasts of prey. It is frequently taken young and tamed. 



Pygathkix PRiAMUS (Blyth). 



Setnnopithecus priam Elliot, Mss. Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 



XIII, 1844, pp. 470, 476. 

 Semnopithecus pallipes Blyth, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1844, p. 312. 

 Presbytis priamus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc Beng., XVI. 1847, 



p. 732, pi. LIV, fig. 1 ; XX, 1851, p. 313 ; Id. Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist., I, New Ser., 1848, p. 454; Id. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. 



Soc. Beng., 1863, p. 12; Horsf., Cat. Mamm. Mus. E. Ind. 



