so Lloyd's natural history. 



VIIL STAMPFLl'S GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS STAMPFLll. 



Cercopithecus melanogenys, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. gi-' 



(1876, nee Gray). 

 Cercopithecus stampfiii, Jentink, Notes, Leyden Mus., x., p. 10 



(18S8) ; Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 257. 



Characters. — Nose-spot white, with its broader part lowest, and 

 the point upwards ; crown of head, nape of neck, legs and 

 hinder portion of tail black; spot on lower lip black; chin, 

 breast, anterior portion of belly, and inside of fore-arms white ; 

 forehead, cheeks, back, sides of body, and the basal portion of 

 the tail, rufous-green, the hairs being ringed with black and 

 rufous-yellow. Length of body, 25^ inches; tail, 38^ 

 inches. 



Distinguished from C. nictitans by its white under surface. 



Distribution — West Africa : Liberia. Obtained in the Pessi 

 country by Messrs. Biittikofer and Stampfli. 



IX. Schmidt's guenon. cercopithecus schiMiuti. 



Cercopithecus ascanias (?), Scl., P. Z. S., 1887, p. 502. 

 Cercopithecus schniidti, Matschie, Zool. Anz., p. 161 (1892); 

 Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 245, pi. xvi. 



Characters. — Closely allied to C. melanogcnys^ the white nose- 

 spot cordate. Face and superciliary region blue ; nose above 

 the white spot black ; a bar between the nose-spot, reaching to 

 the whiskers, on each side, black ; upper and lower lips flesh- 

 coloured ; whiskers white, conspicuous, and with a very narrow 

 black streak on their lower edge ; beard white ; above the 

 superciliary region, and between the flesh-coloured ears, a 

 black frontal bar ; top of head, back, outer aspect of arms, 

 thip:hs, and of the basal third of tail, olive-green and more 



