162 HYLOBATES 



Hylobates variegatus Kuhl, Beitr. Zool., 1820, p. 5 ; Desm., 



Mamm., 1820, p. 51 ; Less., Man. Mamm., 1827, p. 31 ; Griff., 



Anim. Kingd., V, 1827, p. 6; I. Geoff., Belang., Voy., 1834, 



p. 27; VVaterh., Cat. Mamm. Mus. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838, p. 



4; Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 52; Schinz, Syn. Mamm., 



I, 1844, p. 30, (Part). 

 Simla albimana Vig. and Horsf., Zool. Journ., IV, 1828, p. 107. 

 Simia variegatus Fisch., Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 11. 

 Hylobates albimanus I. Geoff., Belang., Voy., 1834, p. 29; Schleg., 



Essai Phys. Serp., Pt. Gen., 1837, p. 2^7 ; Schinz, Syn. 



Mamm., I, 1844, p. 28; Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 



1862, p. 171, fig. 429. 

 Hylobates iinko Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 53. 

 Hylobates leuciscus Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XVII, 1846, 



p. 338, (nee Schreber). 

 Hylobates entelloides I. Geoff., Compt. Rend., 1842, XV, p. 717 ; 



Id. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, II, 1843, p. 582, pi. XXIX ; 



Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1862, p. 173, figs. 437- 



440. 

 Hylobates agilis (nee F. Cuv.), Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1900, p. 313. Ex Malay Peninsula. 



WHITE-HANDED GIBBON. 



Type locality. "India." 



Geogr. Distr. Tenasserim, up to 3,500 feet, and Malay Peninsula, 

 north to the range between Pegu and Arakan. Possibly in the Sittoung 

 Valleys, Burma. 



Genl. Char. Similar to H. hoolock but hands and feet white, 

 and white eyebrows and whiskers. 



Color. Hair around face grayish white; hands and feet white; 

 entire rest of pelage black. 



Measurements. Skull : occipito-nasal length, 85 ; zygomatic width, 

 63 ; intertemporal width, 47 ; median length of nasals, 9 ; length of 

 upper molar series, 23 ; length of mandible, 67 ; length of lower molar 

 series, 29. 



The Hylobates albimanus Geoffroy, is represented in the Paris 

 Museum by an individual obtained by the "Expedition de la Bonite," 

 and is marked on the label as the 'type.' The hair around the face and 

 on the cheeks with the hands and feet is white ; rest of pelage dark 

 reddish brown. It is one of the color variations seen among individuals 

 of this species, but without any specific value, and the same may be said 

 of the H. entelloides I. Geoffroy, the type of which is in the Paris Mu- 



