PITH ECUS 225 



This is a rather small Macaque with soft moderately long hair, 

 and tail nearly the length of the body. It probably represents a dis- 

 tinct species, certainly is not the same as P. mordax, for besides the 

 general srrialler size, the teeth are larger. But the rostral portion of 

 the skull is not normally shaped, having a twist to the left, not from 

 having been injured early in life, there is no evidence of that, so the 

 animal was probably born with the rostrum out of plumb, so to speak. 

 The type is unique, and it is very desirable that other specimens should 

 be procured. 



PiTHECUS VALIDUS Elliot. 



Pithecus validus Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IV, 8th Ser., 1909, 

 p. 252. 



Type locality. Cochin China, exact locality unknown. Type in 

 British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Body stout, heavy ; limbs short, tail not quite as long 

 as the body. Skull with facial region almost as long as the braincase ; 

 sagittal crest present ; rostrum longer than wide ; palate long, narrow ; 

 tooth rows straight ; second upper molar largest ; last lower molar with 

 prominent posterior cusp ; mandible heavy, comparatively massive for 

 its total length; canines stout. 



Color. Crown, middle of nape, line over eyes, and line on sides 

 of head, black speckled with buff ; rest of crown and entire upper 

 parts, Prout's brown washed with olive and grading to raw umber on 

 sides of arms, all speckled with buff; outer side of arms from elbows 

 and hands blackish speckled with buff ; outer side of thighs olive 

 speckled with buff ; legs, rump, and below knees, grayish olive, buff 

 speckled ; side of head and neck olive gray ; under parts and inner 

 side of limbs grayish white; feet olive brown speckled with buff; tail 

 above black on basal half grading into blackish brown on remainder, 

 beneath pale yellowish olive; face flesh color. Ex type British 

 Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,030.3; tail, 365; foot, 125. Skull: 

 total length, 125.3; occipito-nasal length, 103.6; Hensel, 84.9; zygo- 

 matic width, 82.5 ; facial length, 78.9; width of braincase, 57; greatest 

 width of rostrum, 38 ; median length of nasals, 35.5 ; palatal length, 

 50.7; length of upper molar series, 30.2; length of mandible, 93.2; 

 length of lower molar series, 36.9; depth of jaw beneath second molar, 

 23.8. Ex type British Museum. 



