82 Lloyd's natural history. 



tipped, bordered behind by a broad black band from ear to 

 ear ; ears nearly naked ; upper part of nose and a narrow line 

 above the eyes, in front q[ the chestnut band, black; lower 

 nose and upper lip white ; a longish white beard on the chin 

 and throat ; belly dark fulvous, the hairs densely ringed with 

 black; hands and feet black; inner side of thighs, arms, and a 

 streak along the posterior aspect of the thighs, white; tail, 

 except at its base, black. Length, 21 inches; tail, 22 inches. 

 (Sdafer.) Nearly related to C. neglectus. 

 Distribution. — West Africa : Upper Congo. 



VII. Cercopitheci Trituberculatl 



This section of the Family contains but one species, distin- 

 guished by the posterior lower molars having only three, instead 

 of four, tubercles to their crowns. On this account it has been 

 considered by some systematists to be the type of a distinct 



genus, Miopithecus. 



XL. THE TALAPOIN. CERCOPITHECUS TALAPOIN. 

 {Plate XXX IT.) 

 Talapoiii, Buff., Hist. Nat., xiv., p. 287, pi. xl. (1766). 

 Ce nop it h ecus talapoht, Erxleb., Syst. Regn. Anim., p. 36, no. 



15 (^in)^ Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 93 (1812); Desm., 



Mamm., p. 56; Martin, Mammif. Anim., p. 534 (1841); 



Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 71 (1876). 

 Sinita talapoin^ Gm., Syst. Nat., i., p. loi (1788); Schreber, 



Saugeth., i., p. loi, no. 18, pi. 17 ; Fischer, Synops. 



Mamm., p. 21 (1829). 

 Cercopithecus pileaius^ Desm., Mamm., p. 57 (1820 ; nee Shaw). 

 Miopithecus talapoin^ Geoffr., Diet. Nat. Hist., iii., p. 308 



(1849); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 20 (1870). 



