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from "Amerique Meridionale" and was given by M. Bernard, Departe- 

 ment de la Marine. Both these examples have a general dark brown 

 pelage, with more of the golden hue on the lower back on the earlier 

 example, although the one given in 1840, has the tips of the hairs 

 golden as if a change to that color had commenced. 



They are in the pelage which might well be designated as fulig- 

 inosus, but which Geoffroy called belzebuth, and both are so 

 labelled; while one obtained in 1894, from Acapulco, Mexico, which is 

 doubtless an immature A. pan Schlegel, is called A. fuliginosus Kuhl, 

 as stated on the label. A. vellerosus Gray, the fuliginosus style, would 

 seem to be the earlier pelage before the brighter coloring of the mature 

 animal had appeared. As Geoffrey's name of belzebuth was given 

 to the species fourteen years before Kuhl named it, fuliginosus must 

 become a synonym. 



Judging from the descriptions, both Geoff roy's and Kuhl's speci- 

 mens were immature, and had little of the golden color on the back 

 so characteristic of the adult. Considerable confusion has arisen by 

 writers attempting to connect this South American species with the 

 Spider Monkey from Mexico. Gray's type was said to have come 

 from Brazil, but there were no proofs to confirm this. The type of 

 BELZEBUTH, as Stated by Geoffroy, came from the banks of the Orinoco 

 above the great rapids of that river. At Atures and Maypures 

 Humboldt saw it, (1. c). The Mexican species of Ateleus is distinct, 

 and Schlegel has given to it the name, A. pan. 



Ateleus pan Schlegel. 



Ateles ( !) pan Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 180; Allen, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1904, p. 40. 



Ateles (!) vellerosus (nee Gray), Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1872, pp. 5, 798; Reinh., Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1872, p. 797; 

 Alston, Biol. Centr. Amer., I, Mamm., 1879, p. 10; Thos., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1890, p. 72 ; Forbes, Handb. Primates, 

 I, 1894, p. 244; Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. and West 

 Indies, Field Columb. Mus. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 72,2,, fig. 

 CXLI, pi. LXVIII, Zool. Ser. ; Id. Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. 

 Mus., VI, 1905, p. 559, Zool. Ser. 



SCHLEGEL- S SPIDER MONKEY. 



Type locality. Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala. Type in Leyden 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Volcano of Orizaba, State of Vera Cruz, into 

 Guatemala. 



