88 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Colohts cn'sfatus, Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (3), xvii., p. 77 

 (1866); id., P. Z. S., 1886, p. 182, pi. XV. ; id.. Cat. Mon- 

 keys Brit. Mus., p. 19, et Suppl, p. 128 (1870). 

 Procolobus verus, Rochebr., Faun. Seneg., Mamm. Suppl., p. 97, 

 pi. I (1887). 

 Characters. — Body stout ; limbs robust ; head oval, the muzzle 

 slightly prominent ; face and ears naked, brownish black ; 

 thumb entirely absent ; callosities large. Hair on the top 

 of the head, forming a median crest, reddish-olive ; whiskers, 

 directed backward, pale yellow ; over the eyes a frontal bar of 

 the same colour, coalescing with the whiskers opposite the 

 eyes; upper part of body to base of tail and down to the 

 knees, covered with short dark olive-brown hair, finely ringed 

 with black, and washed with rufous on the back of the neck 

 and on the outside of the thighs ; the tail long and thin, olive- 

 brown or brownish-grey ; shoulders, flanks, and outer surface 

 of the limbs, pale greyish-green ; upper sides of the hands 

 and feet reddish-brown ; throat, chest (the hair of which is 

 elongated), under surface of the body and inner side of 

 the limbs, ashy-grey. Length of body, 2 1 inches ; of tail, 



2434:- 

 Distribution. — West Africa. Forests of Fanti and Asbanti. 



11. THE RED-CRESTED GUEREZA. COLOBUS RUFOxMITRATUS. 



Colobus rufomltratus, Peters, M. B. Akad. Eerl., 1879, p. 829, 



pi. iA. and ii. 

 Tropicolobus rufomitratus, Rochebr., Faun. Sene'g., Mamm., 



Suppl, p. 102 (1887). 



Characters.— Body thick-set and covered with short hair ; face 



