218 SEMNOPITHECUS MAURUS. 



and changeable I do not hesitate in considering the Su- 

 matra-Bangka-Borneo-form as belonging to the same species 

 as the Java-form , and as Schreber's specific title has the 

 priority of about half a century over Raffles', we are obliged 

 to call the species Semnopithecus maurus Schreber. 



In accepting this name it must however be observed, 

 that Schreber never has described a monkey under the men- 

 tioned specific title : he figured Tab. XXII , B , a young 

 monkey under the name Simla maura, but called it in the 

 text: »Der Mohraffe." As synonyme he cited Simiolus cei- 

 lonicus Seba, Thes. I, p. 77, tab. 48, fig. 3; Schreber adds 

 »der Geburtsort dieser Gattung ist nach Seba Zeilan , nach 

 »Herrn Edwards Guinea." If Schreber was right in uniting 

 his Simia maura with Seba's Simiolus ceilonicus , then Seba's 

 name ought to be given to the species in question , as 

 Seba's book is from the year 1734, meanwhile Schreber's 

 Saugethiere dates from 1775! But I think it need not to 

 make more conjectures as my intention was merely to ex- 

 hibit the specific similarity of Semnopithecus pruinosus Des- 

 marest (Semnopithecus cristatus Raffles) with Semnopithecus 

 maurus auctorum. 



Notes from the Leyclen Museum , Vol. XI. 



