328 LASIOPYGA 



DJAMDJAM GUENON. 



Type locality. Forests of Djamdjam, east of Lake Abaya, Abys- 

 sinia, East Africa. Altitude 10,000 to 12,000 feet. Type in Berlin 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Bamboo forests of Djamdjam, east of Lake Abaya, 

 East Africa ; range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Fur very thick and long on neck almost forming a 

 mane; tail short. Similar to L. matschie in color, but not so red. 



Color. Top of head and entire upper parts of body, tawny ochra- 

 ceous, the hairs being ringed with that color and black ; white line on 

 forehead barely perceptible ; nose and face beneath eyes covered with 

 short black hairs, with a narrow edging of white on lip ; sides of head, 

 and throat to chest white; chin blackish; arms brownish, black hairs 

 tipped with white ; thighs with dark brown hairs tipped with buff ; legs 

 pale gray ; under parts and inner side of limbs white ; hands and feet 

 brownish black ; tail blackish brown, hairs tipped with white. Ex type 

 Berlin Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 900; tail, 490. No skull. Ex 

 unique type in Berlin Museum. 



The species is nearest to L. matschie, but differs in several impor- 

 tant particulars ; the back is more yellowish ; the tail much darker and 

 the legs grayer ; but the hair is much longer and thicker on back than in 

 any other species of the genus, especially about the shoulders, where it 

 almost forms a mane. A single specimen was obtained by Herr Neu- 

 mann at a high elevation. 



LaSIOPYGA TANTALUS (Ogilby). 



Cercopithecus tantalus Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1841, p. 33, 



pi. XVI ; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 72, (syn. C. 



CALLiTRiCHUs) ; Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 258; 



Matschie, Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1893, p. 216; 



Forbes, Handb. Primates, II, 1894, p. 62; Pocock, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., II, 1907, p. 731, fig. 189. 

 Chlorocebus tantalus var. F. Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and 



Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 26. 



TANTALUS GUENON. 



Type locality. Unknown. No type. 



Geogr. Distr. Nigeria to Lake Chad; Lakoja, Dahomey, Upper 

 Benne River, (Pocock). 



Color. Face and chin black ; hairs on cheeks and lips black, nose 

 white; distinct white brow band, succeeded at bottom in front by a 



