PITHECUS 229 



length of nasals, 29.4; length of upper molar series, 30.1; length of 

 mandible, 92.4; length of lower molar series, 40.6. Ex type United 

 States National Museum. 



This is a very dark Macaque similar in coloration to P. umbrosus 

 but with a shorter tail. The skull is much smaller although the type 

 is a fully adult male. 



Subgenus Macacus. 

 Tail equal to, or exceeding the head and body in length. 



PiTHECUS UMBROSUS (Miller). 



Macacus umbrosus Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1903, p. 

 789. 



NICOBAR ISLAND MACAQUE. 



Type locality. Little Nicobar Island, Nicobars. Type in United 

 States National Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Nicobar Group. Great and Little Nicobar ; Katchel. 



Genl. Char. Color dark, tail longer than head and body. 



Color. Very similar to P. fuscus ; head and upper parts and 

 outer side of limbs, blackish, hairs drab at base and with a subterminal 

 cream buff ring ; under parts and inner side of limbs drab ; hands and 

 feet like upper parts ; tail above nearly black at base, dark drab on 

 apical half, hairs indistinctly annulated with buff. Ex type United 

 States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,040; tail, 530; foot, 135. Skull: 

 total length, 135; Hensel, 94.7; zygomatic width, 88.8; intertemporal 

 width, 38.5 ; palatal length, 54.3 ; median length of nasals, 25.6 ; length 

 of upper molar series, 33.6 ; length of mandible, 98.3 ; length of lower 

 molar series, 40.1. Ex type United States National Museum. 



This species and P. fuscus resemble each other closely in color 

 but the skulls are quite different, that of the present species being 

 much longer, as are also the molar series in both jaws. 



PiTHECUS lEUs (F. Cuvier). 



Le Macaque Buff., Hist. Nat, XIV, 1766, p. 190, pi. XX. 

 Simia cynomolgos (nee Linn.), Bodd., Elench. Anim., 1784, p. 



58, Buffon's fig. ; Fisch., Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 25. 

 Cercocebus cynomolgos (nee Linn.), E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. 



Nat. Paris, XIX, 1812, p. 90; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 



1876, p. 101, (Part.). 



