CERCOPITH ECUS 191 



Callithrix tnidas Erxl., Syn. Mamm., 1777, p. 62. 



Simia lacepddii Fisch., Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc, 1806, p. 23. 



Midas tamarin Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 194. 



Hapale midas Wagn., Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., I, 1840, p. 245 ; V, 

 1855, p. 135 ; Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 587, 

 (note) ; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simise, 1876, p. 266. 



Midas ursulus var. 2, Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit- 

 eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 68. 



Midas midas Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 148. 



Leontopithecus tnidas Thos., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911, p. 128. 



Cercopithecus midas Elliot, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 

 XXX, 1911, p. 341. 



MIDAS TAMARIN. 



Type locality. "In America." 



Geogr. Distr. English and Dutch Guianas. 



Genl. Char. Face hairy; tail very long; hair between shoulders 

 long ; hands and feet golden yellow. 



Color. Head, neck, back between shoulders, arms to wrists, entire 

 under parts and tail black ; back from shoulders, and upper parts of 

 legs rayed black and white, caused by the white tips of the hairs on the 

 black ground color ; wrists and ankles orange rufous ; hands and feet 

 ochraceous ; ears black. 



Measurements. Similar in size to S. bicolor ; tail, 480. Skull : 

 occipito-nasal length, 50; Hensel, 33; zygomatic width, 34; intertem- 

 poral width, 26; palatal length, 16; width of braincase, 28; median 

 length of nasals, 7 ; length of upper molar series, 9 ; length of mandible, 

 32 ; length of lower molar series, 11. Height of face of skull, 9 ; from 

 base of middle incisors to top of frontal between orbits, 16. 



Ceecopithecus rufimanus (E. Geoff roy St. Hilaire) . 



Midas rufimanus E. Geoff., AnA. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, XIX, 

 1812, p. 121 ; Id. Cours Hist. Nat. Mamm., 1828, p. 31, Ire 

 Legon; Tschud., Faun. Peruan., 1844, p. 53; Dahlb., Stud. 

 Zool. Fam. Reg. Anim. Natur., fasc. I, 1856, pp. 190, 194; 

 Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1862, p. 10, figs. 34, 36; 

 Bedd., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 121. 



RUFOUS-HANDED TAMARIN. 



Type locality. Ipoussin, French Guiana. Type in Paris Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. French Guiana, Banks of the Rio Araguay, Prov- 

 ince of Goyas, Brazil. (I. Geoff roy). 



Genl. Char. Similar to C. midas, but the hands, feet and mottling 

 on back tawny ochraceous. Nasals longer; distance from base of 



