136 Lloyd's natural history 



xxvn. the black-crested langur. semnopithecus 

 melanolophus. 



Simla melalophus, Raffles, Tr. Linn. Soc, xiii., p. 244 (1821). 

 Semnopithecus melalophiis (Le Cimepaye), F. Cuv., Hist. Nat., 



Mammif., livr. xxx. (July, 1821); Raffles, Tr. Linn. Soc, 



xxii., p. 245 (1822); Desmar., Diet. So. Nat., xlviii., p. 



38 (1827); Martin, Mammif. Anim., p, 470 (1841); 



Geoffr., Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 16 (185 1); Gray, Cat. 



Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 16 (1870); Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, 



vii., p. 43 (1876; in part); Anders., Zool. Res. Exped. 



Yun-nan, p. 34 (with full synonymy; 1878). 

 Semnopithecus flavimanus, Lesson, Cent. Zool., p. 109, pi. xl. 



(1830); Is. Geoffr., Cat. Me'th. Primates, p. 16 (1851). 

 Semnopithecus su7natra?ius, var. auratus (nee Geoffr.), Miiller 



and Schl. Verhandl., pi. x. bis^ fig. 2 (1839-44). 

 Presbytes melatiophus^ Gray, Hand. List Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 2 



(1843). 



Presbytes flavimana^ Gray, t.c.^ p. 2 (1843). 



Semnopithecus nobilis, Gervais, Hist. Nat., Mammif., p. 6 2, 



(1854) ; Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 17 (1870). 

 Semnopithecus ferrugineus^ Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 42 



(1876). 



Characters. — Head crested ; the crest dark-brown, tipped \vith 

 dusky ; forehead pale yellow ; a Hne from the outer corner of 

 the eye to the ear, dark brown ; back, sides, and shoulders 

 reddish, washed with pale brown ; the rest of the fore-limbs, 

 the whole of the hind-limbs, and the tail, orange-red. Length 

 of body, 18 inches ; of tail, 32 inches. 



The golden variety {S. auritus) from Sumatra, is generally 

 yellowish-red throughout. 



