66 Lloyd's natural history. 



of the body between the fore- and hind-limbs ; shoulders and 

 thighs grey, washed with green ; the rest of the external aspect 

 of the limbs grey ; under side of body and inner side of limbs 

 white ; hands speckled black ; the feet greyish ; tail, dark grey 

 above, pale grey below. 



BistrilDution and Habits. — Unknown. The form described by 

 Peters as C.Jiavidtis comes from Mozambique. 



IV. Cercopitheci Melanochiri. 



The species which we now proceed to describe belong to 

 Prof. Schlegel's Section v., and Dr. Sclater's Cercopitheci nielajio- 

 chiri^ of which the members have the arms and legs either 

 black or dark grey, and have a black band from the outer 

 corner of the eyes to the ears. 



XXII. THE MONA GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS MONA. 



Simia moiia^ Schreber, Saugeth., i., p. 97, pi. xv. (1775). 



Cercopithecus 7iiona^ Erxleb. Syst. Regne An., p. 32 (1777); 



Geoffr., Diet. Hist. Nat., p. 304 (1849); Martin, Mammif. 



An., p. 527 (1841); Wagner, in Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl., 



v., p. 47 (1855); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 22 



(1870) ; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 80 (1876) 



Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 250. 



La money F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., i., livr. ix. (Aout, 1819). 



Characters. — Top of the head brilliant golden-green, the 



hairs being black at the roots, yellow further up and tipped 



with black; back, sides of body, shoulders, and haunches 



chestnut-brown, speckled with black, — the hairs being grey at 



the base, ringed alternately with red, or brown and black ; 



frontal band pale greenish; rump, with the exception of a 



distinctive elliptical white bar on each side, at the base of the 



tail, black; the hands and feet, and external aspect of the legs, 



