CEDIPO MIDAS 213 



GENUS (EDIPOMIDAS. MARMOSETS. 



I-S; C. Ill; P. -Z'; M. !l' = 32- 



OSDIPOMIDAS Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Aflfen, 1862, p. 5, pi. 

 II, figs. 18-20. Type Simia (edipus Linnaeus. 

 OEdipus Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, pp. 184, 197-200, (nee Tschudi, 



1838, Amphib.). 

 Head sometimes crested; sides of head naked or covered with 

 short hairs, hairs on nape elongate. Size small. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Hair on nape elongate ; arms and outer side of legs, white. 



o. Head crested, top of head and nape white 0. oedipus. 



b. Head not crested, center of head white, nape 



burnt umber 0. geoffroyi. 



(Edipomid AS OEDIPUS (Linnaeus) . 



Simia csdipus Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1758, p. 28; I, 1766, p. 41; 



Schreb., Saugth, I, 1775, p. 128, pi. XXXIV; Bodd., Elench. 



Anim., 1784, p. 63; Audeb., Singes et Makis, Fam. VIme 



Sec, II, 1797, pi. III. 

 Callithrix cedipus Erxl., Syst. Reg. Anim., 1777, p. 55. 

 Simia (Midas) cedipus Humb., Rec. Obs. Zool.. I. 1811, (1815), 



p. 361. 

 Midas cedipus E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, XIX, 1812, 



p. 122 ; F. Cuv., Hist. Nat Mamm., 1833, p. 200, pi. LXXII ; I. 



Geoff., Cat. Primates, 1851, p. 62; Dahlb., Stud. Zool. Fam. 



Reg. Anim. Natur., fasc. I, 1856, p. 193 ; Slack, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Scien. Phil., 1861, p. 464; Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 



1894, p. 140. 

 Jacchus cedipus E. Geoff., Cours Hist. Nat. Mamm., 1828, p. 36, 



lOme LcQon. 

 CEdipus titi Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 197 ; Gray, Cat. Monkeys, 



Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 65. 

 Hapale cedipus Wagn., Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., I, 1840, p. 251 ; 



V, 1855, p. 138; Blainv.. Osteog., 1841. Atl., Cebus IV: 



