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they are so rarely molested), and feed on spiders and many kinds 

 of insects especially Orthoptera and Lepidoptera, besides fruit and 

 seeds. Among themselves they are very quarrelsome, constantly 

 fighting and screaming or teasing each other. They have no fear of 

 water and swim well. 



There are remarkably few examples of this species in the 

 Museums of the world ; the animals being considered sacred in India, 

 makes their capture a difficult matter ; for the natives would cer- 

 tainly resent the killing of one of these monkeys, and so comparatively 

 few are taken by Collectors. 



PiTHECUS BEEVICAUDUS Elliot. 



Pithecus brachyurus (nee H. Smith), Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



IV, 1909, 8th Sen, p. 251. 

 Macacus erythraiis (nee Cuv.), Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1870, p. 226. 



ISLAND OF HAINAN MACAQUE. 



f Type locality. Island of Hainan. Type in American Museum of 



Natural History, New York. 



Color. Top of head, nape, hind neck, upper parts of body to 

 rump speckled black and russet ; rump dark orange rufous ; arms and 

 hands speckled blackish and buff, hairs gray on basal half and this 

 color gives a dominant tone to the rest ; flanks and legs ochraceous, 

 unspeckled ; long, stiff, black hairs on superciliary line ; sides of head 

 yellowish gray ; some black hairs on cheeks forming a short line 

 beneath eyes ; face flesh color, becoming blackish on lips which are 

 sparsely covered with short white hairs; chin, throat and under parts 

 of body to anal region yellowish white ; hairs about scrotum and anal 

 region orange and rufous like rump ; inner side of legs yellowish, feet 

 brownish gray ; tail above speckled blackish brown and ochraceous, 

 beneath paler. Ex type American Museum Natural History, New 

 York. 



Measurements. Total length, 730; tail, 220; foot, 135. Skull: 

 total length, 116.1; occipito-nasal length, 100; intertemporal length, 

 46.3; breadth of braincase, 60.6; Hensel, 78.3; zygomatic width, 81.8; 

 median length of nasals, 25 ; palatal length, 42.3 ; length of upper 

 canines, 21; length of upper molar series, 29.8; length of mandible, 

 82.2; length of lower molar series, 36.6. Ex type American Museum 

 Natural History, New York. 



This Macaque, while having a general resemblance to P. rhesus 

 of India, differs in various ways from that species. The tail is much 



