248 PITHECUS 



PiTHECUS DOLLMANI Elliot. 



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

 p. 256. 



Type locality. Tjangi, Island of Singapore, south eastern part. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Resembles in color P. bintangensis, but much 

 larger, and different cranial characters. Skull longer and heavier; 

 width across orbital ridge greater ; intertemporal width greater ; brain- 

 case longer and broader ; zygomatic arch less rounded anteriorly ; 

 rostrum wider than long; incisor teeth much longer; tooth rows 

 curved, not straight; basioccipital much wider; lower molars smaller; 

 ascending ramus of mandible wider ; upper and lower tooth rows much 

 longer. 



Color. Patch above eyes, flesh color ; general hue burnt umber as 

 in P. BINTANGENSIS, and hairs banded in the same way with black and 

 tawny ochraceous ; top of head redder than in the species compared ; 

 the arms more thickly speckled with yellow, and the legs much paler, 

 a smoky gray instead of iron gray ; tail black above, silvery gray 

 beneath; rest of pelage like P. bintangensis. Ex type British Mu- 

 seum. 



Measurements. Total length, 977 ; tail, 573 ; foot, 135 ; ear, 34, 

 (Collector). Skull: total length, 110.8; occipito-nasal length, 94.2; 

 Hensel, 78.5; zygomatic width, 73.2; intertemporal width, 42.1 ; great- 

 est width of braincase, 57.1; length of orbital ridge, 53.9; greatest 

 width of rostrum, 35; length of rostrum, 35.9; median length of 

 nasals, 24; palatal length, 39; length of upper tooth row, 29.1 ; length 

 of mandible, 79.2 ; length of lower tooth row, 37.4 ; size of last molar, 

 89.7 X 60. Ex type British Museum. 



With the exception of a redder head and hind neck, and paler 

 legs, the present species resembles in the color of its pelage P. bin- 

 tangensis from Bintang Island. But it is a larger animal and has 

 very different cranial characters, as is shown above. 



Pithecus philippinensis I. Geoffroy. 



Macacus philippinensis I. Geoff., Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 

 II, 1841, p. 568, pi. V, albino; Id. Cat. Primates, p. 29; 

 Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 406. 



Inuus palpebrosus I. Geoff., Cat. Primates, 1851, p. 93; Wagn., 

 Schreb.. Saugth. Suppl., V, 1855, p. 54. 



