104 RH INOPITHECUS 



Type locality. Atentse, Chinese Province of Yunnan. Type in 

 Paris Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Chinese Province of Yunnan ; left bank of the 

 Mekong, and right bank of Blue Rivers, Eastern Thibet. 



Genl. Char. Size very large, powerful ; body heavy, limbs moder- 

 ate; tail long, rather thick. Just back of the forehead rises a narrow 

 crest extending along center of head to occiput, diminishing in length 

 as it goes backward, until it is very short on occiput. In front the long 

 hairs curved forwards nearly reaching the brow. Hairs on tail curly. 

 Colors black, brown and white. 



Color. Forehead and center of head occupied by the crest; crest 

 itself, nape, entire upper parts and sides, outer side of arms, outer 

 edge of thighs, and all the legs below knees, with hands, feet, and tail 

 black with a brownish tinge on sides of body, and basal half of tail ; 

 sides of head and nape, and sides of face sooty white ; a band across 

 upper part, and line down center of chest dark brown ; chin, throat, 

 sides of neck below ears extending back to shoulders, inner side of 

 arms above elbows, and thighs white, the hairs on thighs very long 

 and hanging down from hinder edge in a thick fringe; inner side of 

 forearms at elbow, and for a short distance below, and inner side 

 of hind limbs dark reddish brown. Face around eyes green. Ex type 

 Paris Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,409.7; tail, 723.9; foot, 230.9. 

 Skull : Male. Total length, 133 ; occipito-nasal length, 105 ; Hensel, 

 broken ; zygomatic width, 103 ; intertemporal width, 52 ; width of 

 braincase, 78 ; median length of nasals, 10 ; palatal length, 53 ; length 

 of upper molar series, 34 ; length of mandible, 95 ; length of lower 

 molar series, 43. Ex type Paris Museum. 



This is a splendid species, even larger than R. roxellan^, but 

 lacks all the fine coloring of that animal, the hues of this one being 

 restricted to brown, black and white, but the white is so effectively 

 placed, that the individuals are very conspicuous even among their 

 more brilliantly colored relatives. An entire family is in the Paris 

 Museum, comprising adults and young. 



M. A. Milne-Edwards says of this fine animal (1. c.) that "in the 

 region of Tsekon, the R. bieti is known by the name of Tchru-tchra 

 or Monkey of the snows. It is difficult to give with precision the 

 Himits of its dispersion. As we have already indicated, all the 

 individuals the Museum possesses were taken in the extreme north- 

 western part of the Chinese Province of Yunnan, on the left bank of 



