. • LASIOPYGA 329 



narrow black line, composed mainly of long stiff black hairs, projecting 

 far outward and upward on the sides ; black band from eyes separating 

 whiskers from hairs of head ; whiskers very long directed upward and 

 backward hiding the ears, yellowish white, becoming more yellowish 

 towards the end, the uppermost hairs speckled and tipped with black ; 

 top of head speckled with ochraceous, the hairs being black from the 

 root ; hind neck and upper parts, hairs gray banded on apical half with 

 black and cream color, darkest on dorsal line and rump, where the 

 color is cream buff ; outer side of arms and legs, hands and feet gray 

 speckled with black and white ; entire under parts from chin to tail, and 

 inner side of limbs grayish white ; hairs around scrotum yellowish 

 gray ; scrotum slate blue ; callosities pink ; tail above speckled yellowish 

 gray and black, becoming yellowish and black mixed, towards the end 

 it is tufted, the hairs yellow tipped with black, beneath gray grading 

 into yellowish on basal half and deepest on tuft ; whiskers buff yellow. 

 Measurements. Total length, 1,295; tail, 730; foot, 135. Skull: 

 total length, 111.8; occipito-nasal length, 91.2; intertemporal width, 

 42.3; Hensel, 76.2; zygomatic width, 73.1 ; breadth of braincase, 55.3; 

 median length of nasals, 16.7 ; palatal length, 40 ; length of upper molar 

 series, 24.7 ; length of mandible, 27.8 ; length of lower molar series, 

 33.6. 



Ogilby's Cercopithecus, (Lasiopyga), tantalus was obtained at 

 "Liverpool, but its previous origin was unknown." His description 

 shows he had a specimen of the green group of the present genus, and 

 answers fairly well for the present species, yet, at the same time, it 

 cannot be stated with certainty that it was the animal that has been 

 called L. tantalus by Authors. However, as his name has been applied 

 to this animal from Nigeria and accepted by writers, it seems better to 

 continue this practice than to give a new name to the species, as 

 causing less confusion probably than if that course were adopted. 



Lasiopyga tantalus budgetti (Pocock). 



Cercopithecus tantalus budgetti Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1907, p. 733. 



Type locality. Bathyaba, east shore of Lake Albert, Uganda. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Whiskers speckled and annulated ; black hairs on 

 hands and feet, and below elbows and knees speckled. 



Color. White band on forehead divided in the middle by a bunch 

 of black hairs, and with a narrow black line at bottom, the hairs of 



