APPENDIX 2SS 



APPENDIX. 



SUBORDER ANTHROPOIDEA. 



FAMILY CALLITRICHID/E. 



GENUS (EDIPOMIDAS, 



CEdipomidas salaquiensis Elliot. 



CEdipomidas salaquiensis Elliot, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1912, 

 p. 137. 



Type locality. Forest of the River Salaqui, northwestern Co- 

 lombia. Type in American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. 



Color. Adult male. Face and sides of head covered with very 

 short white hairs, skin black ; throat naked, black ; middle of forehead 

 to crown white, the hairs starting at a point just above and widening 

 as they go to crown ; crown and nape dark chestnut, hairs ringed with 

 black ; forearms white, rest of arms, shoulders, entire upper parts and 

 outer side of legs to ankles, black mottled with cream buff ; inner side 

 of arms, lower part of throat and chest cream color, rest of under 

 parts of body and inner side of legs deep buff yellow ; tail above jet 

 black, a few chestnut hairs at the root, beneath chestnut at root, re- 

 mainder jet black ; hands and feet gray ; ears black, naked. 



Measurements. Total length, 690 mm. ; tail, 395 ; foot, 75. Skull : 

 total length, 59.7; occipito-nasal length, 50; Hensel, 37.4; zygomatic 

 width, 36.1; intertemporal width, 24.5; median length of nasals, 7.3; 

 breadth of braincase, 27.6; palatal length, 18; length of upper molar 

 series, 10; length of mandible, 31.9; length of lower molar series, 

 12.4. Ex type American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. 



This species, while having a general resemblance to CE. geoffroyi, 

 is larger, and differs in the coloring of its coat in the following respects : 

 the crown and nape are dark chestnut instead of burnt umber, the 

 mottling is cream color on inner side of arms and chest, and buff 

 yellow on rest of under parts and inner side of legs instead of all these 

 parts being pure white. The cranial characters are very different. 

 The skull is much larger in its dimensions ; the palate is wider and 

 longer; the bullae longer and higher, the zygomatic arch longer and 

 wider; the braincase broader, and occipital region broader and more 



