214 PITHECUS 



Macacus (Pithex) oinops Hodg., Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., IX, 



1840, p. 1212, fig. p. 1213; X, 1841, p. 908; Id. Calc. Journ. 



Nat. Hist., II, 1842, p. 212; IV, 1844, p. 285; Id. Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist., VIII, 1st Ser., 1842, p. 315, fig. 

 Macacus oinops Gray, Handb. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, p. 8; 



Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1862, p. 141, pi. XXIV, 



fig. 367. 

 Pithecus (Macacus) erythraus Dahlb., Stud. Zool. Fam. Reg. 



Anim. Natur., fasc. I, 1856, pp. 116-120. 

 Macacus {Pithecus) erythrcEus Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. 



Affen, 1862, p. 137, figs. 345-348, 354-356. 

 Macaciis (Pithecus) geron Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 



1862, p. 139, pi. XXIV, fig. 351 ? 



BENGAL MACAQUE. 



Type locality. Unknown. 



Geogr. Distr. Himalayas to the Godaveri River, Northern India; 

 Cashmere at 5,000 feet elevation; Jako Hill, Simla, 8,500 feet, (intro- 

 duced) ; Nepal, (Hodgson); Guzerat, Central Provinces; in Bengal 

 and Northern Circars, and on the west coast near Bombay. Replaced in 

 Assam and Burma by M. assamensis, although Anderson states, 

 (Zool. Yunnan, pp. 56 and 57), that he obtained at Momien and the 

 Hotha valley specimens of Macaques closely resembling P. rhesus, 

 and another was given to him by Dr. Marfels from Burma, but with- 

 out locality. It is probable, however, that these were really P. assam- 

 ensis. 



Color. Head, and upper parts of body to middle of back bistre 

 with a grayish tinge speckled with buff, the hairs being purplish brown 

 banded with buff on apical half ; this color grades into orange red 

 on lower back, rump and thighs ; arms gray speckled with buff ; under 

 parts and inner side of limbs grayish white ; tail short, Prout's brown 

 above, yellowish beneath ; face and ears flesh color ; callosities fed. 



Measurements. Total length, 930; tail, 330; foot, 145. Skull: 

 total length, 145.4; occipito-nasal length, 115.5; Hensel, 108.3; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 96.3; intertemporal width, 50; width of braincase, 67.6; 

 median length of nasals, 34.2 ; palatal length, 60 ; length of upper molar 

 series, 37; length of mandible, 118; length of lower molar series, 49.2. 



The type of Hodgson's M. oinops is in the British Museum, a skin 

 in fair condition ; the skull showing it to be a young adult male. It is 

 now a dark brown, some hairs on head and shoulders slightly speckled 

 with buff, and the thighs beginning to show the orange red hue of P. 

 RHESUS ; outer side of arms and legs blackish brown ; under parts 



