164 CYNOPITHECUS 



Measurements. Total length, 680. Skull: total length. 132; 

 occipito-nasal length, 109; Hensel, 91; intertemporal width, 48; zygo- 

 matic width, 84 ; median length of nasals, 20 ; length of upper molar 

 series, 32; length of mandible, 92; length of lower molar series, 42. 

 Ex type Berlin Museum. 



This is an animal more brownish than black, and with long narrow 

 callosities, and the hair on rump restricted to the center above the 

 button of a tail. 



The skull of this form has a short face and the rostrum narrows 

 rapidly anteriorly not retaining the broad shape of typical Cynopithe- 

 cus, and is more like Pithecus. 



The type was obtained from the Zoological Gardens, and was with- 

 out locality, and giving the range as in the middle western portion of 

 Celebes is, as indicated by Herr Matschie, merely a supposition. The type 

 not being adult and without locality, should for the present be placed 

 with C. NIGER as having more affinity with that species than any other. 



All the material in the Berlin Museum has been examined. 



Of C. heeki all the specimens, seven in number, were obtained 

 from the Zoological Gardens as stated by Herr Matschie in his paper. 

 Unfortunately they are without any authenticated locality, and most of 

 them are young, so, for scientific identification, they are practically 

 without value, as it is not known if the specimens all came from one 

 locality or from several, and it may be possible that some may have 

 been born in captivity. Herr Matschie places its habitat at the north 

 western part of Celebes, because a specimen which is considered to be 

 the same, was received by the Dresden Museum from this part of 

 Celebes. As nigrescens Temminck, now deemed inseparable from C. 

 NIGER, is found from Gorontalo to Tomini, and probably also on the 

 northern part of this section of Celebes as well as on the west coast 

 (C. hypomelas), and there not being sufficient evidence in the available 

 material of so-called C. hecki, (the majority of specimens including the 

 type being very young), to separate it from C. nicer, it would seem 

 best to consider it the same as that species, leaving the question to be 

 definitely decided at some future period when ample materials with 

 authenticated localities may have been gathered. Of C. hypomelas 

 practically nothing is known as already stated. The shape of the 

 callosities either in one mass or divided in the center, varies with 

 individuals, and I am inclined to regard the different shapes as 

 dependent upon the age of the animal, or a variation of a particular 

 example. At present too little is known about it, for it to be accepted 

 as indicating a specific character. 



