100 CEBUS 



Cebus apiculatus Elliot. 



Cebus apiculatus Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XX, 1907, 6th 

 Sen, p. 292; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XXX, 

 1911, p. 273. 



Cebus Havus (nee Geoff.), Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. 

 Mus., F. C. M. Pub., Vni, 1906, p. 560, Zool. Ser. 



Cebus fatuellus Allen, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XX, 1904, p. 

 344, (nee Linn.). 



Type locality. La Union, Lower Orinoco. Type in British 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Guayapo, La Union, Lower Orinoco, El Laguall, 

 La Bomba, El Hacha, Aroa, (Allen); Sciapure and Marino; Rio 

 Caura, and Rio Mocho, a tributary of Upper Rio Caura ; Venezuela 



Color. Male. Face flesh color. Black spot on middle of crown 

 extending in a narrow line on to the forehead ; rest of head grayish 

 brown, becoming white on forehead and sides in front of ears; nape 

 reddish brown; upper parts of body and root of tail, blackish brown; 

 all the hairs of lower half of body tipped with russet, giving this part 

 a reddish appearance ; arms to wrist on outer and inner sides pale 

 yellow, the hairs being blackish brown at base and tipped with pale 

 yellow which becomes the dominant color; wrists and hands blackish 

 brown ; hairs toward shoulders are pale yellow to the roots, the black- 

 ish brown base beginning at the elbows ; legs on outer side pale yellow, 

 becoming reddish below the knees, the hairs being blackish brown 

 tipped with pale yellow to the knee, and then above tipped with golden ; 

 throat yellowish white ; chest yellowish brown ; rest of under parts dark 

 brown in the center of the body, the hairs pale yellow at base ; hands 

 blackish brown, feet black ; tail above like thighs until near the tip, the 

 hairs being black tipped with pale yellow, tip blackish brown, beneath 

 blackish brown the entire length. 



Female. From Guayapo, Lower Orinoco. Hair on head much 

 longer on top and on sides than on the male, standing out in the shape 

 of a semi-crest ; the upper part of the arms is darker, being a yellowish 

 brown ; the back is not so conspicuously tipped with yellow, and is more 

 red on the rump, as are also the legs ; the black on the crown is broader 

 and covers all the back of the head ; the tail is like that of the male ; all 

 the under parts are blackish brown, only the roots of the hairs on the 

 chest being yellowish white. 



Another female from the same locality is much redder above, the 

 hairs tipped with yellow on the sides, and with ferruginous on dorsal 

 region and on the thighs ; middle of head from a point on the forehead to 



