LASIOPYGA 303 



67.4; length of lower molar series, 30. Ex British Museum specimen 

 91. 11. 3. 1. St. Paulo River, Liberia. 



Lasiopyga ASCANius ( Audebert) . 



Simia ascanius Audeb., Hist. Nat. Singes, 1799, Fam. 4me, Sec. 2, 



fig. 13. 

 L'Ascaigne G. Cuv., Regn. Anim., 1829, p. 93. 

 Cercopithecus melanogenys Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XVI, 1st 

 Sen, 1845, p. 212; Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1849, p. 7, pi. 

 IX, fig. 1 ; Id. Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, 

 Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 21 ; Monteiro, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1860, p. 112;'Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Aflfen, 1862, p. 

 105, fig. 254; Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 245; 

 Matschie, Sitzungsb. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1893, 

 pp. 99, 215 : Forbes, Handb. Primates, II, 1894, p. 49. 

 Cercopithecus ascanius Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Aflfen, 1862, 

 p. 106, fig. 260 ; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 87 ; 

 Pousarg., Ann. Scien. Paris, III, 7me Ser., 1896, pp. 183, 208; 

 Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., II, 1907, p. 719, fig. 186, pi. 

 XL, fig. 5. 

 Cercopithecus histrio Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1863, 



p. 106, figs. 256-259. 

 Cercopithecus picturatus Santos, Journ. Scien. Lisb., XI, 1886, 

 p. 98; Matschie, Sitzungsb. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 

 1893, pp. 99, 215. 

 Type locality. Unknown. *Type in Paris Museum. 

 Geogr. Distr. Congo to Angola; Oubangui, Alima, (Pou- 

 sargues) ; Encoge south of Bambe, (Monteiro) ; Quimpampala, 

 (Santos). 



Color. Nose white ; sides of head from nose to ears white, 

 covered by a black bar from nose to side of neck ; band across forehead 

 black ; top of head, upper parts and sides of body black, thinly speckled 

 on head with yellow, and on body with ochraceous ; limbs black ; arms 

 above elbows and hind limbs sparsely speckled with ochraceous ; under 

 parts, inner side of arms above elbows, and of legs to ankles, grayish 

 white ; tail above, black on dorsal half speckled with ochraceous, 

 maroon on apical half, beneath white on basal half, red on apical half. 

 Ex type Paris Museum. Space around eyes and upper lip blue; end 

 of nose white, ears and lower lip flesh color. (Audebert). 



♦This species is not mentioned by I. Geoffroy in his Catalogue, his "As- 

 caigne" (p. 19), being (C) petaurista Schreber, ex Guinea. 



