LASIOPYGA 313 



Genl. Char. Size large, tail very long; ears tufted posteriorly. 



Color. Broad yellowish white band with numerous long black 

 hairs in front, some of them banded with cream buff; top of head to 

 nape black; upper part and sides of body speckled cream buff and 

 black ; between shoulders long black hairs overlie but do not obscure 

 the speckling, which is visible as far as the head; cheeks, and on sides 

 of head extending to shoulders, speckled cream buflf and black ; face 

 slaty black, lips covered with short white hairs; shoulders, arms, hands 

 and feet jet black; legs from hips to ankles speckled cream buff and 

 black, giving them a grayish tone ; chin and throat white ; under parts 

 of body grayish, speckled with cream buff ; tail like back for two thirds 

 the length, remainder black ; ears fringed on posterior side with buff 

 hairs. Ex type Berlin Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,500; tail, 990; foot, 185. Skull: 

 total length, 110.3; occipito-nasal length, 90.9; intertemporal width, 

 45.1; Hensel, 82; zygomatic width, 70.5; breadth of braincase, 62.2; 

 median length of nasals, 17.4; palatal length, 42.5; length of upper 

 molar series, 25.1 ; mandible wanting. Ex type Berlin Museum. 



Mr. Scott Elliot says of this Monkey (1. c.) : "I brought home 

 a specimen of Cercopithecus pluto (a West African form), or of the 

 allied C. stuhhnanni. The Wakondja in the Nyamwamba valley, East 

 Ruwenzori, make a sort of pouch or pocket of the skin, which they 

 carry over the shoulder, so that the animal must be common. This 

 Monkey is extremely shy, and usually the only sign of its presence 

 is the noise of a tremendous crash amongst the branches a long 

 distance away. Once I saw very well a troop of another monkey, 

 probably a Cercopithecus also, I was alone, of course, without a gun, 

 and sitting down very quietly on a fallen tree. Four or five of the 

 older males came quite close after some hesitation. They had white 

 marks on the face, simulating eyebrows, moustache and imperial, and 

 their expression was melancholy and unhappy." 



Lasiopyga NEUMANNi (Matschie). 



Cercopithecus neumanni Matschie, Sitzungsb. Gesell. Naturf. 

 Freunde, Berlin, 1905, p. 260. 



Type locality. Kwa Kitolo, North Kavirondo, German East 

 Africa. Type in Berlin Museum. 



Genl. Char. Almost exactly like L. stuhlmanni but sides of 

 head yellowish, and under parts slightly darker ; nose violet brown. 



Color. Long hairs on forehead, projecting upwards and outwards, 

 sides of face, and head, neck, entire body and legs speckled black and 



