4 THE :JTATURAL niSTOIlY 31ETTEW. 



commonly, but incorrectly, called the " Chinese" Bonnet-monkey. 

 In Southern India also, we find the singular "Lion-Monkey" {Macacus 

 silemcs)y often said to be from Ceylon, but of which the true home 

 is " Travancore and Cochin, and the Malabar ghats as high as 

 Goa." In Central India and Bengal the Ehesus-monkey (J/, rhesus) y 

 so common in Eiu-opean menageries is the only species of this form, 

 unless the varieties distinguished by Hodgson* be deemed worthy of 

 a higher rank than what is generally accorded to them. 



The genus SemnopitJiecus or Preshytes is better represented in 

 Continental India, if we accept the claims of the various " dis- 

 tinguishable races" of the S. entellus to be considered as specifically 

 distinct. The true Hoonuman or Sacred Monkey, 8. entellus (verus) 

 of Mr. Blyth's w^ritings, is foimd only in Bengal and Upper India. 

 In Southern India it is replaced by S. piiamus of the Coromandel 

 coast, and S. hypoleueus of the Malabar ghats, in the Subhimalayan 

 region by 8. scJiistaceus. In Southern India is also found the distinct 

 species S. cucullaius of the Nilgiris, Pulneys and Malabar ghats. 

 On the eastern side of the bay of Bengal, Mr. Blyth's >S^. pileatus 

 appears to be a northern outlier of the S. cnstatus of Sumatra. 

 In Ceylon, besides the continental S. priaviuSy -sYhich is common in 

 the north and east, we meet with 8. tJiersites, S. ur sinus, and S. 

 cephalopterus. The former of these belongs to the true entellus 

 group, the two latter are quite distinct, and more nearly allied to 

 8. maurus. So that in British India we have some seven or eight 

 representatives (belonging to two sections) of this group of 

 Quadrumana. 



The Lemurida? are represented in India -by two outlying strag- 

 glers of this Ethiopian group, quite distinct in their geographical 

 range, and although often united under one generic head, equally so 

 in organization. The slender Loris {Loris gracilis) is found in 

 Ceylon and Southern continental India. In Bengal, however, the 

 only representative of this family is the Nyticehus tardigradus, 

 or Slow Loris, which, like so many other animals of this district, 

 is little more than a northern form of the scarcely separable 

 N. javanicus. 



The next great group of Mammals, following the arrangement 

 of JMr. Blyth's catalogue, is very extensively difiused in our Indian 

 dominions, as in most other parts of the world. But the Chiroptera 



* J. A. S. B. ix. 1213. 



